A judge has denied former gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake’s bid to view ballot affidavit envelopes from the 2022 Arizona governor’s election, which she claims she won despite election certification results.

In a brutal 12-page ruling, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge John Hannah denied Lake’s request to access ballot envelopes signed by approximately 1.3 million early voters in the general election.

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“Ms. Lake regards the electoral process much like the villagers in the famous fable regarded the goose that laid the golden egg, except that her goose failed to lay the egg she expected,” Hannah wrote.

“She insists that something must have gone wrong. If only she could cut open the electoral process and examine each of its 1.3 million pieces, she says, she would be able to figure out what happened and show that the prize has been there waiting for her all along,” he added.

Gov. Katie Hobbs (D-AZ) defeated Lake by more than 17,000 votes, and over a year later, Lake insists she was robbed of the governorship. The latest ruling was in Lake's third trial, which began in September and followed two other unsuccessful trials. In May, a judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by Lake accusing Maricopa County of not verifying signatures on mail ballots as required by law. In February, a court rejected Lake’s lawsuit claiming problems with ballot printers at some polling places.

In response to the judge's Thursday ruling, Lake’s "war room" account on X, formerly known as Twitter, claimed the judge ruled that the records are public but being kept private for other reasons.

“The judge ruled that while these records are public. The public has no right to see them,” the post reads. “We can no longer trust or verify. Corrupt election officials are allowed to handle the peoples’s business in back rooms knowing the judiciary will not hold them accountable.”

However, the judge’s ruling confirmed that the records are not public and use nonpublic information in the voter registration records, such as the end digits of a Social Security number.

Hannah wrote that the release of millions of ballot affidavit envelopes “would undermine the process of verifying those voters’ ballots in future elections,” adding it would create a risk of “widespread voter fraud where none now exists” and “expose voters to harassment and potentially force them to defend the integrity of their own votes.”

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“Some number of voters would stop participating entirely, out of fear of identity theft or concern about privacy. But those individuals have exactly the same interest in being heard through the electoral process as those who voted for unsuccessful candidates in past elections. Their frustration and disillusionment are every bit as harmful to democratic self-government as the frustration and disillusionment of those who have come to doubt the “integrity” of the electoral process,” Hannah added.

In October, Lake launched a Senate bid, joining Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), for Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s (I-AZ) seat. Sinema has yet to announce if she will run for reelection in 2024.