Conservatives on Georgia's state election board have passed a rule requiring that ballots be hand-counted three times.

Georgia's Republican-controlled state election board was preparing to vote on Friday on whether 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,

Georgia election officials are requiring poll workers to tally the number of ballots by hand. The State Election Board voted 3-2 on Friday to approve the new rule, going against the advice of the state attorney general’s office,