An Arizona court Friday granted Kari Lake, former Arizona gubernatorial candidate, permission to inspect ballots from the Arizona general election on November 8. In her complaint, Lake’s legal team argued that the number of illegal votes cast in Arizona’s general election far exceeded the vote margin between Republican Lake and Democrat governor-elect Katie Hobbs.

Lake’s chosen representative will now have the opportunity to inspect 50 randomly-selected “ballot-on-demand” ballots, 50 randomly-selected early ballots and 50 randomly-selected “ballot-on-demand” printed ballots that were marked spoiled.

The 70-page lawsuit filed alleged that thousands of ballots with mismatched signatures were illegally counted. Lake alleged that there were significant technical problems in that ballot printers and tabulator failures prevented many votes from being scanned. Lake argued that as a result of frustration caused by the delays, many people left without casting a vote. Lake also alleged improper ballot handling–particularly a chain of custody failure for early ballots.

Judge Peter Thompson denied Lake’s request to copy and photograph ballots, because “the statute authorizing her ballot inspection provides only for an ‘inspection of ballots’ ‘made in the presence of the legal custodian of the ballots.'”

Judge Melissa Julian Friday, in a separate lawsuit, dismissed a similar claim from Mark Finchem, the Republican nominee for secretary of state. Finchem claimed that voting machines were not properly certified and tabulating machine failures resulted in illegal votes. In its ruling, the court noted, “The law in Arizona does not permit an election challenge to proceed based solely upon a vague sense of unease.”