If the 2024 election is as close as polls suggest and the state of Georgia decides the outcome, people may not know who won for “weeks if not months” because of a move a pro-MAGA group pushed in the battleground state.

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.

According to a Pew Research poll released on September 9, 65 percent of Jewish voters said they back Harris this election, while 34 percent support Trump. In 2020, a report from Pew found that 70 percent of Jewish Americans voted for President Joe Biden, while 27 percent voted for Trump.

Attempts by conservatives to purge state voter rolls ahead of the November election, including from Donald Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee, are ramping up, prompting concern from the Justice Department that those efforts might violate federal rules governing how states can manage their lists of registered voters.

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

Some state averages started later in 2024 because of a lack of sufficient early polling. Source: Averages by The New York Times; polls collected by FiveThirtyEight and The Times. Nate CohnChief political analyst Despite a strong debate performance,

State law allows voters to cast their ballot up to 46 days before the election, but many will chose to vote on Election Day.

Georgia's Republican-controlled state election board was preparing to vote on Friday on whether 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,