State board meeting approves rule requiring election workers to hand count ballots on election night by three votes to two. Georgia election board rejects hand-counting ballots from early voting 17:34Sam Levine The Georgia state election board just voted 4-1 to table a proposal that would have required hand-counting ballots during early voting.

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,

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.

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

Among the new rules, election workers will hand count ballots on Election Night, potentially delaying the swing state's results.

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