The 2024 election season is underway. While the presidential race drives many people to the polls, voters will find many other decisions for them down the ballot. Why it matters: As a North Carolinian,

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.

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,

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,

State board meeting considering controversial changes hears hand-counting ballots would ‘unnecessarily delay’ election day tabulation

The Georgia election board is considering 11 change proposals brought by state Republicans, including hand-counting ballots and introducing something called "absentee ballot tracking," just one month before early voting begins in the state.