A decision blocking Republican-backed changes to election rules in Georgia will not be reviewed by the state's high court on an expedited basis, making the new rules unlikely to go into effect for the Nov.

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.”

A Fulton County Superior Court judge ruled last week that the State Election Board did not have the authority to pass the rules. The Georgia Supreme Court agreed.

Georgia judges are picking apart controversial new election rules in the state as record-breaking amid early voting. The rules, imposed by Georgia’s Republican-led State Election Board, stood to upend election procedures in the weeks before Election Day.

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, a change that voting rights groups warned could have caused chaos.

In Georgia, nonvoters are the most complicated piece of the electoral puzzle in a state that could decide the presidency