Kamala Harris campaigned Friday on restoring abortion rights in Georgia, where most polls show her trailing Republican nominee Donald Trump.

Vice President Kamala Harris directed her team this week to immediately schedule a visit to Georgia following a media report that revealed two deaths linked to the battleground state’s abortion restrictions,

Virginia, South Dakota and Minnesota.  It comes as Vice President Harris visits battleground Georgia where today the state's Republican-led election board required counties there to hand-count all ballots cast on election day.

At times on Friday, Harris grew emotional as she spoke about maternal mortality, as she did on Wednesday night in an interview with Oprah Winfrey. She singled out the “preventable” death of Amber Thurman, a Georgia woman who, according to medical experts, would have survived had Georgia laws allowed her access to a routine life-saving procedure.

State attorney general’s office, secretary of state’s office and an association of county election officials advised State Election Board not to pursue the rule.

Allies of former President Donald Trump who control the Georgia State Election Board approved a controversial new rule Friday requiring counties to hand-count the of ballots cast at polling places on Election Day,

Georgia's election board passed a controversial rule change Friday that mandated all Election Day votes be hand counted, which critics say will delay certification.

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.

Vice President Harris plans on Friday to give her first abortion speech in Georgia, where she will address the deaths of two Georgia mothers.

The move, likely to face legal challenges, comes just weeks before early voting starts in the key battleground state.

Georgia's Republican-controlled state election board may vote on Friday 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,