Pennsylvania’s Al Schmidt is pleased about progress combating threats and misinformation — but disappointed state legislators haven’t enabled faster counting of mail ballots.

Georgia's State Election Board on Friday voted to approve a new rule that requires poll workers to count the number of paper ballots by hand after voting is completed.

The Georgia State Election Board has ruled that election officials must hand count ballots on election night in a state that is expected to come down to the wire.

Among the new rules, election workers will hand count ballots on Election Night, potentially delaying the swing state's results.

The Georgia State Election Board will require hand counts of all votes in the November election and confirm the figures match machine counts. Paper ballots are now required to be counted at each polling place by three separate poll workers.