ritchie1A lawsuit filed against Secretary of State Mark Ritchie by the conservative Minnesota Majority and a handful of Republican lawmakers and activists was dismissed by the Minnesota Supreme Court on Thursday. The suit alleged that Ritchie did not keep voter rolls updated during the 2008 elections.

Bringing the suit were Minnesota Majority employees Jeffrey Davis and Daniel McGrath; Republican legislators Tom Emmer, Mark Buesgens and Matt Dean; chairman of the Minnesota Republican Liberty Caucus David FitzSimmons; self-described “Republican activist and campaign worker for about 25 years” Jean Sanford and Carver County Republican activist Cindy Pugh.

The Supreme Court said that it did not have jurisdiction to hear the case.

“Here you have a major U.S. Senate race being decided by just a few hundred votes, and along comes our case citing the fact that the secretary of state has been unable to account for tens of thousands of voters in the 2008 election,” Minnesota Majority president Jeffrey Davis said in a press release. “You can see why the court might not want to touch this case with a 10-foot pole.”

But the court said the plaintiffs “neither describe nor identify any wrongful acts, omissions or errors of respondents concerning a specific election as required” by Minnesota statute. It added that they requested “no relief specific” to the 2008 election, noting that even if they had tied it to the election, the window for contesting the election has passed.

Ritchie praised the decision. “On behalf of all dedicated election officials who help administer the best election system in the country, I thank the Minnesota Supreme Court for its careful and judicious review of this lawsuit and its decision to dismiss it,” he said in a statement this on Thursday. “We agree with the court’s findings that Minnesota Majority neither described nor identified any wrongful acts, omissions or errors, and we concur with the court’s decision to reject the lawsuit.”