Trump majority of the battleground state's election board approved the move, which critics from both parties warn could lead to delays in reporting results.

Allies of former President Donald Trump who control the Georgia State Election Board approved a controversial new rule Friday requiring counties to hand-count the of ballots cast at polling places on Election Day,

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

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.

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 Center for Justice,

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

State board meeting approves rule requiring election workers to hand count ballots on election night by three votes to two