Allies of former President Donald Trump who control the Georgia State Election Board approved a new rule requiring counties to hand-count the number of ballots cast at polling places on Election Day.

The board, with a new right-wing majority, is set to consider new election rules just 45 days before the election.

The vote passed 3-2 by the Georgia State Election Board. The board also passed two more election rules in August.

Elected commissioners of a Georgia county are asking a judge to cancel a special election that challenges zoning changes to a Black community of slave descendants.

Critics plan to sue, saying the new requirement would almost certainly lead to errors and could disrupt the process of certifying the vote in a crucial battleground state.

Georgia election officials are requiring poll workers to tally the number of ballots by hand. The State Election Board voted 3-2 on Friday to approve the new rule, going against the advice of the state attorney general’s office,

The state that handed Trump one of his narrowest losses four years ago is immersed in election controversies months before Election Day.

The new rule requires that the number of paper ballots — not the number of votes — be counted at each polling place by three separate poll workers until all three counts are the same.

Experts and election officials warned that the election board’s new rule could be used to sow doubt about election results.

The Georgia State Election Board voted 3-2 on Friday to require counties to hand-count all ballots, in addition to machine tallies, in the 2024 election. The decision, driven by the board’s Republican majority,

Georgia's Republican-controlled state election board may vote on Friday to require a labor-intensive hand count of potentially millions of ballots in November's election, a move voting rights advocates say could cause delays,