Georgia's Supreme Court has rejected a Republican-led effort to reinstate seven new election rules, approved by the State Election Board, before Election Day as early voting is underway in the battleground state.

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.

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 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 Georgia Supreme Court rejected a last-minute push by the Republican Party to reinstate a set of new election rules that included, among other things, a requirement that ballots be hand-counted in the upcoming US presidential contest.

The Georgia Supreme Court declined a request for an expedited appeal over a judge's finding that seven new election rules are “illegal, unconstitutional and void.”