Kamala Harris campaigned Friday on restoring abortion rights in Georgia, where most polls show her trailing Republican nominee Donald Trump.

Vice President Kamala Harris directed her team this week to immediately schedule a visit to Georgia following a media report that revealed two deaths linked to the battleground state’s abortion restrictions,

Virginia, South Dakota and Minnesota.  It comes as Vice President Harris visits battleground Georgia where today the state's Republican-led election board required counties there to hand-count all ballots cast on election day.

The board, with a new right-wing majority, is set to consider new election rules just 45 days before the election.

Critics plan to sue, saying the new requirement would almost certainly lead to errors and could disrupt the process of certifying the vote in a crucial battleground state.

The pleas from dozens of Georgia election board leaders and staffers on Friday weren’t enough to dissuade State Election Board members from approving a new rule requiring poll workers to hand count ballots on Election Day in November.

Georgia's Republican-controlled state election board may vote on Friday to require a labor-intensive hand count of potentially millions of ballots in November's election, a move voting rights advocates say could cause delays,

State attorney general’s office, secretary of state’s office and an association of county election officials advised State Election Board not to pursue the rule.

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,

The move, likely to face legal challenges, comes just weeks before early voting starts in the key battleground state.

Elected commissioners of a Georgia county are asking a judge to cancel a special election that challenges zoning changes to a Black community of slave descendants.