A divided appeals court has rejected pleas from a Republican state House candidate from Miami Beach who contends she was improperly kept off the November ballot because of a bank error on a qualifying check.

The First District Court of Appeal in a 2-1 ruling Wednesday upheld a Leon circuit judge’s decision that kept Laura Rivero Levey off the ballot in House District 113. Incumbent state Rep. David Richardson, D-Miami Beach, is unopposed with Levey out of the race.