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 Georgia state election board voted 3-2 to require counties in the presidential battleground to hand-count ballots in this November's election.

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

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 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.

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.

The move, likely to face legal challenges, comes just weeks before early voting starts in the key battleground state.

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.

At times on Friday, Harris grew emotional as she spoke about maternal mortality, as she did on Wednesday night in an interview with Oprah Winfrey. She singled out the “preventable” death of Amber Thurman, a Georgia woman who, according to medical experts, would have survived had Georgia laws allowed her access to a routine life-saving procedure.