A Palestinian activist attorney is suing the Michigan Democratic Party and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, alleging the party broke its own rules to block her from a nomination to the University Of Michigan Board of Regents.

The lawsuit filed by Huwaida Arraf on Thursday in Ingham County Circuit Court alleges “several irregularities marred the voting and reporting process” at the MDP convention in August, resulting in nominations for two candidates endorsed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to the U-M board.

“We cannot be confident in the results that have been announced,” Arraf said at a news conference Thursday, according to Detroit Metro Times. “It’s an affront to the electoral integrity, which we should take seriously.”

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Official results show incumbent Democrat Denise Ilitch and former regent Shauna Ryder Diggs won the Democratic nominations to appear on the November ballot for the U-M Board of Regents, which was the only contested nomination at the convention, The Detroit News reports.

Arraf, an international civil rights attorney who represented students demanding U-M’s divestment from Israel, alleges she led both Ilitch and Diggs in the popular vote at the convention, before party officials applied a weighted system to calculate the final tally that’s based on Democratic turnout during the most recent even-year election. U-M regents have steadfastly resisted demands from student activists for the university to divest from companies doing business with Israel, despite an encampment on campus at protests at their homes this spring.

Arraf contends missing data at the convention prompted party officials to rely on raw data calculated in a tabulation area that was off limits to her campaign, but open to other candidates, their families, and current regents, according to the Times.

Afterwards, Ilitch and Diggs were declared the winners, and party officials refused Arraf’s requests to review raw data used to tabulate the results, according to the lawsuit.

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Arraf said the data her campaign did receive included discrepancies.

“That is greatly disturbing because you have a situation where the leadership of the Michigan Democratic Party was put on notice that there were problems with the validity of the data they have given us, not even the raw data, and they should want to clarify this so we can be confident of the results, and I received no response to that,” Arraf said.

Her lawsuit argues the MDP failed to use the correct tabulation method outlined in its bylaws, and ratified the results without a Democratic State Central Committee quorum, as required, according to The News.

“Had MDP simply followed its bylaws, plaintiff Arraf would have one of the two nominations,” the lawsuit said. “All efforts to compel the MDP to rectify the matter have failed.”

Arraf alleges that in addition to conflicting with MDP bylaws, the ordeal violated the Nonprofit Corporations Act that requires nonprofits to allow members access to records. The lawsuit seeks a declaratory judgement that the MDP violated its bylaws and an order preventing Benson from recognizing the Democratic nominees for the U-M board until the dispute is resolved.

“The MDP did not provide plaintiffs, and particularly the candidate plaintiff Arraf, with a mechanism by which to request a recount or otherwise challenge the results of the election,” the lawsuit read.

Arraf said Thursday she brought hundreds of new participants into the party, but instead of embracing them, MDP officials opted instead to push them aside.

“If you don’t feel like your voice and participation will count, then there is no incentive to get involved,” Arraf said, according to the Times. “And that is not what we want, especially in the time that we are now, leading up to the November election, knowing how much of a threat a potential [Donald] Trump presidency can be, and that is why we are further dismayed at how the Michigan Democratic Party has seemingly not cared about the fact that they have disenfranchised and disillusioned the hundreds of new members that came to participate in the convention.”

Tommy Kubitschek, spokesman for the MDP, told The News on Thursday officials had not yet reviewed Arraf’s lawsuit.

“We are waiting to review the complaint filed with the Ingham County clerk and look forward to following the proper legal process,” Kubitschek said.