This petition came from the American Civil Liberties Union, which called for voters having problems with their ballots to be given four days to resolve them. Under state law, the deadline is at the end of the business day, five days after an election, which in the most recent cycle was a Sunday at 5 p.m. MT.

None of the responding counties asked the court for an extension and instead asserted that they all made reasonable efforts to contact voters with problematic ballots. Arizona House Speaker Ben Toma, Arizona Senate President Warren Petersen, the Republican National Committee and the Navajo Nation submitted amicus briefs opposing the motion, to which the court s ‘is put aside.

“Thus, the Court has no evidence demonstrating that voters will not be able to cure a defective ballot by today’s 5 p.m. deadline,” the court order states. “In short, there is no evidence of disenfranchisement before the Court.”

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At the time the ACLU filed the petition on Saturday, there were approximately 67,000 ballots remaining to be processed. By Sunday evening, that number had dropped to just over 33,000, according to at the Arizona Secretary of State’s office.

The race was called in favor of President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday evening with 87% of the vote. However, the House of Representatives election is by a much narrower margin and the U.S. Senate election is close, with a gap of more than 66,000 votes.