With less than a week until election day, a federal judge is expected to hear arguments over Dodge City's only voting location.

The hearing will take place on Thursday in Topeka.

Ford County clerk Debbie Cox says the county moved the city's only polling place to the Expo Center, south of town, because of scheduled construction at the old polling location.

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit after they learned some new voters were sent mail listing the old polling place - at the Civic Center, in Dodge City.

The ACLU is asking the court to re-open the Civic Center as a second voting location.

The lawsuit claims the new location is farther from the city center making it less accessible for the elderly, physically disabled, low-income, and Hispanic voters.

In the court filing, the ACLU states, "voters would not be in this situation if Defendant Cox was receptive to the concerns of her constituents rather than substituting her own experiences for those of the community she was elected to serve."

In its filing, Ford County says it's impossible to set up a new location.

The county also says it doesn't have enough manpower to organize, staff, and prepare a new polling location on such short notice.