AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Latest on Election Day in Texas (all times local):

4:50 p.m.

Nine Houston-area polling places will stay open until 8 p.m. after a judge ruled in favor of advocacy groups that complained the locations didn’t open on time and forced many voters to leave without casting a ballot.

State District Judge Fredericka Phillips granted a temporary restraining order Tuesday that directs Harris County to keep the nine locations open until 8 p.m., an hour later than the rest of the county.

The Texas Civil Rights Project and Texas Organizing Project filed several statements from voters who reported long morning lines and malfunctioning machines.

One person said she was first in line before the 7 a.m. opening but left at 7:45 without voting because poll workers’ sign-in machines weren’t working.

An attorney for Harris County says the county will comply with Phillips’ order.

The nine locations are listed here . There are roughly 1,000 polling places in Harris County.

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3:30 p.m.

A Harris County deputy has cited a poll worker for misdemeanor assault after she allegedly bumped a voter during an argument and made a racist comment.

The Harris County Sheriff’s Office said on Twitter the deputy responded Tuesday morning to a disturbance call at a polling site in Houston.

The Houston Chronicle reports the dispute began over a discrepancy with the voter’s address. The confrontation escalated and the worker, who is white, made a racist comment to the voter, who’s a black woman. Witnesses confirmed to the newspaper that the worker said, “Maybe if I’d worn my blackface makeup today you could comprehend what I’m saying to you.”

The election judge at the site separated the two.

Harris County authorities are investigating the matter.

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12:45 p.m.

Apparent technical problems have cause Election Day delays for some voters looking to cast ballots in Harris County.

Houston resident Xenia Kulick says voting was delayed by about 20 minutes after her polling site opened Tuesday, and then problems with registration check-in machines resulted in a long line forming.

The Houston Chronicle reports an election judge at the polling location said iPads, which are used to certify voter registration, were not working for less than 10 minutes.

A Harris County elections official says technical glitches occur periodically and county workers try to move quickly to resolve them to prevent disruptions for voters.