SCOTUS is saying that the constitution declares the states are going to run their elections. And because the states have run the process through their courts, and election processes—and deemed them to be proper—then other states and the Supreme Court are not “harmed” by them.
Unless everyone here wants to change the electoral college....
I didn’t think so.
The problem is that the states didn’t run their elections. In those 4 states, the laws were ignored and individual counties or even individual boards of election made their own decisions and changed the legislated (that is, legitmate, agreed upon) rules even while the election was in progress.
This deprived the other states of a level playing field, because they ran their elections as they had legally agreed to do. Everybody knew the conditions in advance ... but 4 states changed them on the fly without legislation.