The Jill Stein-led effort to have Michigan's November election results recounted appears to have failed.

A federal judge on Wednesday ruled to dissolve a temporary restraining order that was blocking state officials from ending the recount.

"The issues that Plaintiffs raise are serious indeed," wrote U.S. District Court Judge Mark Goldsmith in his ruling issued about 7:45 p.m. Wednesday. "The vulnerability of our system of voting poses the threat of a potentially devastating attack on the integrity of our election system.

"But invoking a court's aid to remedy that problem in the manner Plaintiffs have chosen -- seeking a recount as an audit of the election to test whether the vulnerability led to actual compromise of the voting system -- has never been endorsed by any court, and would require, at a minimum, evidence of significant fraud or mistake -- and not speculative fear of them. Such evidence has not been presented here."

Prior to the ruling, Michigan's Board of State Canvassers voted 3-1 to preemptively halt the presidential recount process in the event Goldsmith dissolved the order that allowed the recount to start in the first place.

It also comes in the aftermath of a state Court of Appeals decision issued late Tuesday that instructed the Board of State Canvassers to reject the recount petition, finding that Stein, the Green Party candidate in the election, wasn't sufficiently "aggrieved" under state law to request a recount.

Stein successfully called for an expedited recount, which Goldsmith originally ordered to begin at noon Monday, Dec. 5, which it did in Oakland and Ingham counties. Wayne County and others started recounting hundreds of thousands of ballots Tuesday.

A federal appeals court late Tuesday determined Goldsmith's order could be dismissed if state courts ruled the recount to be out of order with state law.

Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette, a Republican, on Monday said Stein was simply trying to "manipulate the system." He estimated a statewide recount would cost taxpayers up to $6 million.

Trump won in Michigan's presidential election over Democrat Hillary Clinton by a margin of 10,704 votes. Stein came in fourth place in Michigan, earning 1.07 percent of the total vote.