The Arizona Supreme Court has declined to hear most of Republican Kari Lakes’ appeal in a challenge to her defeat in the state’s gubernatorial race, but has revived a claim that was rejected by a court.

In an order Wednesday, the state’s highest court said a lower court erroneously rejected Lakes’ claim and challenged the application of signature verification procedures to early ballots in Maricopa County, including Phoenix. The court returned the claim to a court for review.

Lake said late Wednesday that she is happy with the ruling.

The signature verification process in Maricopa County is a house of cards, Lake said in a statement. This ruling gives my team the chance to surpass it.

Lake, who lost to Democrat Katie Hobbs by just over 17,000 votes, was one of the most vocal GOP candidates of 2022 promoting former President Trump’s election lies, which she made the center of her campaign. While most other election deniers across the country relented after losing their races in November, Lake did not.

In her challenge, the former TV anchor focused on problems with ballot printers at some polling places in Maricopa County, home to more than 60% of the state’s voters.

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The faulty printers produced ballots that were too light to be read by the on-site tabulators at polling stations. Rows backed up in some areas because of the confusion. Lake claimed that problems with the ballot printer were the result of willful misconduct.

County officials say everyone has had a chance to vote and all ballots have been counted as those affected by the printers have been taken to more sophisticated counters at the election office.

In mid-February, the Arizona Court of Appeals rejected Lakes’ claims, concluding that she had provided no evidence that voters whose ballots were illegible to tabulators at polling places could not vote.

Even a witness called to testify on Lakes’ behalf confirmed that ballots that could not initially be read at polling places were eventually counted, the appeals court noted. And while a pollster tested that polling station problems disenfranchised enough voters to change the outcome of the election, the appeals court said its conclusion was unfounded.

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Lakes’ lawyers also said the ballot chain of custody was broken at an outside facility where a contractor scans submitted ballots to prepare them for processing. The lawyers alleged that workers put their own mail-in ballots in the pile instead of returning them through normal channels, and that there was no paperwork to document the transfer of ballots. The province disputes the claims.

Hobbs’ lawyers have said Lake was trying to sow suspicion in Arizona’s election results and that she offered no evidence to support her claims.

Lake faced extremely high odds in her challenge, which required proving wrongdoing specifically to negate her victory that resulted in the wrong woman being declared the winner.

Hobbs took office as governor on January 2.