Georgia's Republican-controlled election board voted on Friday to require a labor-intensive hand count of potentially millions of ballots in November, a move voting rights advocates say could cause delays,

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.

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The Georgia Election Board ruled on Friday that ballots must be hand-counted by local precincts despite concerns from election officials and opposition from some state officials. The Georgia

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ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's State Election Board on Friday voted to approve a new rule that requires poll workers to count the number of paper ballots by hand.

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.

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,

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

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