Mark Niesse at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

The battle over Georgia’s election rules reaches the state Supreme Court on Wednesday where the court will consider whether the State Election Board went too far last year.

The case tests whether the board’s right-wing majority had the power to require election inquiries and hand-counts of ballots, as it attempted to do in the weeks before last year’s presidential vote.

A Fulton County judge overturned the board’s rules before the election, and the Supreme Court is now considering an appeal of that decision.