Forty-five days before U.S. elections and less than a month before early voting begins, former President Donald Trump’s allies on the Georgia State Election Board on Friday passed a rule requiring county officials in the key swing state to count all ballots by hand, a move one expert said could “be exploited by election deniers” like Trump, the 2024 Republican nominee. The board’s pro-Trump majority voted 3-2 in favor of requiring hand counts, with Chair John Fervier, an Independent, casting one of the two dissenting votes. “The overwhelming number of election officials that have reached out t…