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.

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.

The Georgia Supreme Court has denied the Republican Party's request to immediately reinstate new ballot rules passed by the State Election Board (SEB) last month.