A federal judge in Atlanta has summarily rejected a request for emergency action by a Democratic candidate fighting to flip a U.S. House seat held by Republicans for more than two decades.

Trailing Republican incumbent Rob Woodall by just 533 votes, Democrat Carolyn Bourdeaux on Thursday morning petitioned U.S. District Judge Leigh Martin May to revisit—and expand—May’s earlier temporary restraining order that imposed limits on which absentee ballots rejected by Gwinnett County election officials must be validated and counted.