"he" who controls the counting of votes, controls the results. Centralized vote counting is the easiest system to rig. The safest system is de-centralized voting, where thousands of polling places each tally the votes cast at that location and report them. If is much harder to rig 1000's of vote counters than it is one system.
Do not blame NC, be truthful…the leftist Dimocrat governor of NC had a lawsuit filed.