In-person voting for the 2024 U.S. presidential election begins Friday in three states — Virginia, South Dakota and Minnesota, the home state of Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz

As voting begins, some state and local election officials from across the country have warned that problems with the nation's mail delivery system threaten to disenfranchise voters in the upcoming presidential election, telling the head of the U.S. Postal Service that it hasn't fixed persistent deficiencies.

If approved, the hand count rule would make Georgia the only state in the U.S. to implement such a requirement as part of the normal process of tabulating results, according to Gowri Ramachandran, the director of elections and security at New York University's Brennan Center for Justice,