State board meeting approves rule requiring election workers to hand count ballots on election night by three votes to two. Georgia election board rejects hand-counting ballots from early voting 17:34Sam Levine The Georgia state election board just voted 4-1 to table a proposal that would have required hand-counting ballots during early voting.

Get the latest updates on the Georgia State Election Board's proposed rules that could change the way elections are conducted.

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

Several county election officials who spoke out against the rule during a public comment period preceding the vote warned that having to count the ballots by hand at polling place

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