Despite warnings from Georgia’s Attorney General and Georgia’s Secretary of State, the Georgia State Election Board passed a rule this week that would require hand counting of ballots at the county level after the polls close on election day.

The rule requires that three poll workers sort ballots into piles of 50 and counted to determine if the hand count is equal to the number of paper ballots scanned at each polling location on Election Day. That count will determine the number of ballots cast, not which candidate receives more votes.

The rule will likely delay results in the Presidential Election in November.

The Attorney General’s Office says that the rule will likely not stand up in court because it is not tied to any legislation approved by elected representatives and signed by the governor and that the state election board does not have the authority to impose the rule without a law requiring the hand count.

Three right-wing Republicans on the Election Board voted in favor, while the loan Democrat and the chairman of the board, appointed by Governor Brian Kemp, opposed the new rule.