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'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,

Experts say hand counting ballots takes longer and is less accurate than using machines, and would be impractical in Pennsylvania elections.

The Georgia State Election Board is set to vote on a controversial measure Friday that would require local precincts to conduct hand counts.

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

The office of Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr sent a letter to the members of Georgia’s State Election Board Friday morning telling them some of the planned rule changes to election policies ahead of the presidential race may violate state law.

Georgia Attorney General told the State Election Board in a letter Friday morning, as the board prepared to consider passing a slate of new rules just three weeks away from the early voting period in the 2024 election,