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

Georgia election officials praised by Trump carried a vote to require poll workers to tally the number of ballots by hand.

Georgia’s State Election Board approved a controversial new rule requiring all ballots to be hand-counted at each of the state’s polling sites, just weeks before early voting is scheduled to start in the pivotal swing state.

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.

The key battleground state of Georgia's election board voted Friday to force ballots to be hand-counted three times before a result is declared.As one of multiple motions on changing how elections are run,

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

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,

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,

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