Georgia's Supreme Court rejected a Republican-led effort to implement more than half a dozen controversial new election rules before Election Day. In a brief order issued Tuesday, the court declined to reinstate the seven new rules implemented by the State Election Board,

The rules included three that have gotten a lot of attention. One would require three poll workers to count ballots — not votes — by hand once polls close. The other two had to do with the process

Georgia judges are picking apart controversial new election rules in the state as record-breaking amid early voting. The rules, imposed by Georgia’s Republican-led State Election Board, stood to upend election procedures in the weeks before Election Day.