Georgia's Supreme Court rejected a Republican-led effort to implement more than half a dozen controversial new election rules before Election Day. In a brief order issued Tuesday, the court declined to reinstate the seven new rules implemented by the State Election Board,

The Georgia Supreme Court won’t let the state election board enforce a slate of controversial new election rules that were passed by allies of Donald Trump, ruling Tuesday against Republicans who asked for them to be revived as early voting got underway in the critical battleground state.

The Georgia Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an attempt by national and state Republicans to immediately reinstate recently passed election rules that a judge had ruled were invalid.Fulton County Superior Court Judge Thomas Cox last week ruled that the State Election Board didn’t have the authority to adopt the new rules,

The decision is yet another legal setback for the state election board, which sought to implement an array of changes in the weeks and months before the November vote.

The U.S. swing state of Georgia's top court declined on Tuesday to hear an expedited appeal by Republicans of a decision blocking a new rule that would have required poll workers to hand-count ballots.