Allies of former President Donald Trump who control the Georgia State Election Board approved a new rule requiring counties to hand-count the number 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.

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 move, likely to face legal challenges, comes just weeks before early voting starts in the key battleground state.

Critics plan to sue, saying the new requirement would almost certainly lead to errors and could disrupt the process of certifying the vote in a crucial battleground state.

The vote passed 3-2 by the Georgia State Election Board. The board also passed two more election rules in August.

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.

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,

Georgia’s State Election Board approved a controversial new rule requiring all ballots to be hand-counted at each of the state’s polling sites, just weeks before early voting is scheduled to start in the pivotal swing state.

Among the new rules, ballots will be hand counted on election night, potentially delaying reporting of the swing state's results.

The state that handed Trump one of his narrowest losses four years ago is immersed in election controversies months before Election Day.