Georgia judge blocks ballot hand-count rule pushed by election deniers

Campaign staff members move a sign reading ‘vote early’ into a hall before a rally for donald Trump in Atlanta, Georgia, on 15 October. Photograph: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

A Georgia judge ruled on Tuesday against a new rule passed by the state election board’s pro-Trump majority on the state election board that would have required poll workers to hand-count ballots.

Judge Robert McBurney said that as early voting in Georgia has already begun, mandatory hand-counting would create chaos and delay the election results.