Less than eleven weeks before the presidential election, county officials in the state of Georgia are calling on the state election board to stop making drastic rule changes affecting election administration.

The Georgia Association of Voter Registration and Election Officials (GAVREO), which consists of more than 500 poll workers and officials from every county in the state, released a statement Wednesday urging the board to delay any future rule changes until after the election.

“We are already in the midst of extensive training preparations for our poll workers and are preparing for one of the largest and most closely monitored elections in years,” GAVREO President W. Travis Doss said in a statement.

The association said rule changes at this time would not only cause confusion and uncertainty among poll workers and election officials, but also among voters.

“Any last-minute change in the rules could undermine public confidence in the electoral process and place unnecessary pressure on the people responsible for running the election and administering the election,” Doss said. “This could ultimately lead to errors or delays in voting, and that is the last thing anyone wants.”

GAVREO also said that voters already have enough worries and fears about the elections and that changing the rules could now sow doubts about whether there will be a “fair and orderly process” in November.

This statement comes after the Georgia State Board of Elections this month adopted rules that change the election certification process. Both rule changes could delay the certification of election results, which could encourage the spread of misinformation and distrust in the process.

The committee also announced that its next meeting would be on September 20, when it would consider and vote on several proposed rules, including one that would require three different poll workers to hand-count ballots at the polling station, even if they have already been counted by a ballot scanner. This proposed rule was even rejected by Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.

“We urge the State Election Board to seriously consider the impact of further rule changes and to make the integrity and smooth running of the upcoming election a top priority,” Doss said.

Read GAVREO’s statement here.