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,

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.

Some voters can cast their ballot in person Friday in Minnesota, Virginia and South Dakota. 45 days out, here is where Trump and Harris stand.

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,

In-person voting for the 2024 U.S. presidential election begins Friday in three states — Virginia, South Dakota and Minnesota, the home state of Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz

Virginia is the first state to allow early in-person voting, a milestone moment six weeks before election day.

Voting for the U.S. presidential contest starts in Minnesota as Election Day closes in AP is live from Minnesota as in-person voting for the 2024 U.S. presidential election begins in three states: Virginia,