The Georgia State Election Board voted 3-2 to require counties in the presidential battleground to hand-count ballots in this November's election.
Virginia, South Dakota and Minnesota.  It comes as Vice President Harris visits battleground Georgia where today the state's Republican-led election board required counties there to hand-count all ballots cast on election day.
The board, with a new right-wing majority, is set to consider new election rules just 45 days before the election.
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.
Conservatives on Georgia's state election board have passed a rule requiring that ballots be hand-counted three times.
Kamala Harris campaigned Friday on restoring abortion rights in Georgia, where most polls show her trailing Republican nominee Donald Trump.
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.
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,
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.
State attorney general’s office, secretary of state’s office and an association of county election officials advised State Election Board not to pursue the rule.