WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans on Monday called on U.S. Supreme Court for an emergency order in Pennsylvania that could result in thousands of votes not being counted in this year’s election in the battleground state.

Just over a week before the elections, the court is asked to intervene in a dispute concerning provisional ballots cast by Pennsylvania voters whose mail-in ballots were rejected for failure to follow technical procedures under state law.

The state’s high court ruled 4-3 that election officials must count provisional ballots cast by voters whose absentee ballots were spoiled because they arrived without required secrecy envelopes.