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.

The board’s chairman warned before the vote that the move was going against the advice of their legal counsel.

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.

State board meeting considering controversial changes that could spark voting chaos. The Guardian has obtained a memo from the Georgia attorney general’s office advising the state election board that several of the rules it is voting on today are illegal.

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

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

The board, with a new right-wing majority, is set to consider new election rules just 45 days before the election.