Trump majority on the battleground state's election board approved the move, which critics from both parties warn could lead to delays in reporting results.
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,
Georgia 's State Election Board on Friday voted to approve a new rule that requires poll workers to count the number of paper ballots by hand after voting is completed, a change that critics worry could delay the reporting of election night results.
Vice President Kamala Harris directed her team this week to immediately schedule a visit to Georgia following a media report that revealed two deaths linked to the battleground state’s abortion restrictions,
Experts and election officials warned that the election board’s new rule could be used to sow doubt about election results.
Georgia's election board passed a controversial rule change Friday that mandated all Election Day votes be hand counted, which critics say will delay certification.
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.
The Trumpy state election board voted to require a hand count of all ballots, which could delay and disrupt vote certification.
The board, with a new right-wing majority, is set to consider new election rules just 45 days before the election.
Georgia's State Election Board on Friday voted to approve a new rule that requires poll workers to count the number of paper ballots by hand.