QUEENS, N.Y. Queens Borough President Melinda Katz won the Democratic nomination for district attorney of Queens, following a prolonged recount and court battle that came to a close on Tuesday.

Tiffan y Cabn, 32, a queer Latina public defender who enjoyed the backing of Queens nascent activist left, led Katz at the end of Election Day on June 25.

But a little over a week later, Katz, 53, narrowly overtook Cabn when all of the absentee ballots were counted. Katzs narrow margin then prompted a full manual recount, which she proceeded to win by a 60-vote margin on July 26.

Cabn nonetheless fought on, challenging the New York City Board of Elections invalidation of a number of affidavit ballots those granted to voters without proper proof of party registration. But after a hearing in Queens on Tuesday in which a judge upheld many of the invalidations, Cabn and her team determined that her path to victory was perilously narrow if not impossible. She decided that she would not pursue additional legal action.