The office of Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr sent a letter to the members of Georgia’s State Election Board Friday morning telling them some of the planned rule changes to election policies ahead of the presidential race may violate state law.

If approved, the hand count rule would make Georgia the only state in the U.S. to implement such a requirement as part of the normal process of tabulating results, according to Gowri Ramachandran, the director of elections and security at New York University's Brennan Center for Justice,

The Georgia State Election Board passed a controversial measure Friday that would require local precincts to conduct hand counts.

Georgia election officials praised by Trump carried a vote to require poll workers to tally the number of ballots by hand.

State board meeting approves rule requiring election workers to hand count ballots on election night by three votes to two