The Georgia Supreme Court won’t let the state election board enforce a slate of controversial new election rules that were passed by allies of Donald Trump, ruling Tuesday against Republicans who asked for them to be revived as early voting got underway in the critical battleground state.

The Georgia supreme court on Tuesday rejected a Republican-led emergency appeal to get seven rules, most notably one that requires poll workers to count ballots by hand, reinstated in the last two weeks before the November election.

A decision blocking Republican-backed changes to election rules in Georgia will not be reviewed by the state's high court on an expedited basis, making the new rules unlikely to go into effect for the Nov.

The Georgia Supreme Court has rejected an attempt by national and state Republicans to immediately reinstate recently passed election rules that a judge had ruled were invalid.

Kamala Harris' support from Black voters in Georgia is substantially less than Joe Biden's in 2020, according to a new poll.

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 approved by the State Election Board,

The poll, conducted by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the University of Georgia, found Trump at 47% support in the state, compared to Harris' 43%. A sizable 8% of respondents said they remain undecided, however.

The Georgia Supreme Court rejected a last-minute push by the Republican Party to reinstate a set of new election rules that included, among other things, a requirement that ballots be hand-counted in the upcoming US presidential contest.

The Supreme Court of Georgia rejected Republicans' effort to reinstate seven new rules for the Nov. 5 election, including a ballot hand-count rule.

Georgia's top court declined on Tuesday to hear an expedited appeal by Republicans of a decision blocking a new rule that would have required poll workers to hand-count ballots, a change that voting rights groups warned could have caused chaos.

Georgia's Supreme Court has rejected a Republican-led effort to reinstate seven new election rules, approved by the State Election Board, before Election Day as early voting is underway in the battleground state.