Trump-aligned Georgia election board votes 3-2 to require hand-count on election day

Republican majority approves requirement for poll managers to hand-count ballots before tabulating votes

Forty-six days before the election, Georgia's state election board has approved a new rule requiring a hand-count of paper ballots cast on election day before tabulating votes.

The three Trump-aligned members that make up the majority on the board approved the rule that would require three people in every precinct to check machine-vote tallies by hand-counting the election results, despite a warning from the state attorney general that this rule and others in consideration very likely exceed the board's statutory authority".