North Carolina’s new voting laws include a change to primary dates that could cost the state delegates to Democratic and Republican conventions. The law creates separate presidential primaries scheduled to take place the week after South Carolina votes, if SC votes before March 15. The early date violates Democratic and Republican party rules protecting Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada as first in line for primaries and caucuses.

Via Time:

Under the Republican National Committee rules adopted at the convention last year, North Carolina would be subject to the “super penalty” — an increasing punishment designed after Florida jumped ahead of Nevada in 2012 that would reduce the state’s delegates to the national convention to nine from 55 in 2012. As a result of the adoption of the penalty, Florida moved its primary for 2016 to the first Tuesday in March — the first date that would avoid the penalty. The Democratic Party rules are more fluid, but in 2008 stripped Florida and Michigan of all their delegates for violating the sanctioned calendar, becoming another front in the battle between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. The Party restored 50 percent of the delegates by the convention.

This penalty might not stop North Carolina, which is seeking its share of the national spotlight and a portion of the tens of millions of dollars spent on early state campaign organizations and television ads, but it would remove the near-term incentive for a candidate to campaign in the state. Under the penalty, North Carolina would be reduced to as many delegates to the Republican convention as Guam.