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.

Georgia's election board passed a controversial rule change Friday that mandated all Election Day votes be hand counted, which critics say will delay certification.

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,

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.

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.

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.

Vice President Harris plans on Friday to give her first abortion speech in Georgia, where she will address the deaths of two Georgia mothers.

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.