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 after voting is completed, a change that critics worry could delay the reporting of election night results. The board's decision went against the advice of…

Critics say the move could significantly delay the reporting of results in the battleground state and inject chaos into the post-election period.

The Georgia State Election Board has ruled that election officials must hand count ballots on election night in a state that is expected to come down to the wire.

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 Centre for Justice.

The Georgia State Election Board, where MAGA Republicans now have a majority, have approved a new rule requiring a hand count of ballots on Election Day before votes can be tabulated. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a conservative non-MAGA Republican, has been highly critical of them ...