The lawsuit filed by Kari Lake regarding the electronic voting machines in metro Phoenix has been dismissed.

The use of electronic voting machines in last year’s midterm elections was challenged by former Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake in a lawsuit. However, the lawsuit was dismissed and subsequently rejected by a federal appeals court.

In April 2022, Mark Finchem, a Republican who was unsuccessful in his bid for Arizona Secretary of State, along with Lake, filed a lawsuit claiming that the ballot tabulation machines lacked reliability.

The previous anchor from Phoenix TV ended up losing her election with a margin of more than 17,000 votes, whereas Finchem lost by a significantly larger margin of over 120,000 votes.

In the ruling Monday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said their claims didn’t show “a plausible inference that their individual votes in future elections will be adversely affected by the use of electronic tabulation, particularly given the robust safeguards in Arizona law, the use of paper ballots, and the post-tabulation retention of those ballots.”

The challenge centered around issues concerning ballot printers at certain polling locations in Maricopa County, which is the residence of Phoenix and where over 60% of the state’s voters reside. The faulty printers generated ballots with text that was either too faint or too tiny for the paper, rendering them unreadable by the tabulators present at the polling places.

During the chaos, there were delays in certain areas. However, the Arizona Court of Appeals determined that there was no proof indicating that voters who had unreadable ballots at polling stations were ultimately unable to cast their votes.

On Tuesday, there were no immediate responses from the lawyers representing Lake and Finchem regarding the appeal court’s ruling.

Still pending is a ruling in another lawsuit that Lake filed this year over Maricopa County’s ballot signature-verification process. She has demanded that Arizona’s most populous county release 1.3 million ballot envelopes signed by voters.

Lake was one of the most outspoken Republican candidates in the previous year, actively endorsing former President Donald Trump’s false claims about the election, which she heavily emphasized during her campaign.

After their losses in November, many election deniers across the country accepted defeat, but Lake did not. She is considered a potential candidate to be Trump’s running mate in his 2024 campaign.