MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — In-person voting for this year’s presidential election began Friday, a milestone that kicked off a six-week sprint to Election Day after a summer of political turmoil.

If approved, the hand count rule would make Georgia the only state in the U.S. to implement such a requirement as part of the normal process of tabulating results, according to Gowri Ramachandran, the director of elections and security at New York University's Brennan Center for Justice,

Virginia is the first state to allow early in-person voting, a milestone moment six weeks before election day.

Voting for the U.S. presidential contest starts in Minnesota as Election Day closes in AP is live from Minnesota as in-person voting for the 2024 U.S. presidential election begins in three states: Virginia,