The Georgia State Election Board voted 3-2 on Friday to require counties to hand-count all ballots, in addition to machine tallies, in the 2024 election. The decision, driven by the board’s Republican majority,

The pleas from dozens of Georgia election board leaders and staffers on Friday weren’t enough to dissuade State Election Board members from approving a new rule requiring poll workers to hand count ballots on Election Day in November.

According to WABE reporter Sam Gringlas, one rule allows local election board members to prevent votes from being counted at precincts if board members identify discrepancies, pending an investigation. And if the board members believe the error cannot be corrected, the board “shall determine a method to compute the votes justly.”

Local election officials in Georgia are scrambling to avoid chaos after a hard-right state election board reset rules in ways that could lead to delays and distrust in the 2024 vote.

The Georgia State Election Board and Republicans squared off against Democrats Tuesday over controversial rule changes to the November contest.

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney is hearing arguments for and against the recent rule changes approved by the Georgia Election Board regarding the upcoming presidential election.

Georgia Democrats urged a Fulton County judge Tuesday to throw out changes made by the Republican-controlled State Election Board ahead of next month’s presidential election. There are two new rules at the center of the case,

A state judge held a bench trial Tuesday over whether a flurry of recent rule changes from the Donald Trump-backed Georgia election board conflict with state law requiring local election boards to certify election results.