Maine’s Secretary of State has reaffirmed that a petition drive to challenge ranked choice voting has not gathered enough valid signatures.

The petition was aimed at getting a question on the statewide ballot in November asking Mainers whether they want to keep ranked choice voting.

Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap issued the statement late Wednesday. That came after a lawsuit filed on behalf of the petition organizers to appeal a determination already made in July, when Dunlap found that the petition came up short of the 63,067 valid signatures that were required.

During his review, Dunlap accepted some signatures that were previously considered invalidated, but rejected several more that were previously accepted. In all, over 11,000 signatures were rejected, leaving the petition short of it’s goal.

Dunlap’s office said some of the signatures were not registered Maine voters, and others were not notarized and submitted to municipal clerks properly.

The Cumberland County judge is set to make a decision in the appeal.