North Carolina Republicans ask the Supreme Court to allow the state to count fewer votes.

Republicans in North Carolina teamed up with the Trump campaign Thursday to petition the Supreme Court to weigh in and shorten the period of time after Election Day that mail-in ballots—postmarked by Nov. 3—can still be counted. The North Carolina GOP wants the period to accept ballots to revert to the previous three-day window, which was unanimously extended by the North Carolina State Board of Elections in September by six days due to concerns about postal delays. The argument the GOP is making is pretty straightforward, though the logic is unsurprisingly ridiculous. State GOP leaders argued in their appeal that the extended deadline “will result in disparate treatment by inhibiting the rights of voters who cast their absentee ballots before the Memorandum was issued.”....
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/10/north-carolina-republicans-appeal-supreme-court-mail-in-absentee-ballots.html