FiveThirtyEight

On Tuesday night, a federal appeals court voted 12-3 to deny a request from North Carolina Republicans, who wanted the court to impose an emergency stay on a state voting rule allowing state officials to count ballots that are postmarked by Election Day and received up to nine days later. However, this may not be the last we’ve heard of this case. The three dissenting judges — none of whom, notably, were Trump’s recent appointees to this appellate court — urged the GOP officials who had asked for the stay to take the case to the Supreme Court “immediately.”