(CNN) A federal judge has denied a request to open a new polling site in Dodge City, Kansas, after advocates said the current location would put Latino voter turnout there at risk.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas filed a civil rights lawsuit on behalf of a young Latino voter and the League of United Latin American Citizens after elections officials moved the only polling site for the city's 27,000 residents from its historic downtown to the outskirts of the southwest Kansas city due to upcoming construction.

Ford County Clerk Deborah Cox notified registered voters of the change in the polling location on September 28.

ACLU attorneys urged US District Judge Daniel Crabtree to consider ordering Ford County officials to open a second polling place downtown. The location of the new polling place is more than a mile away from the nearest bus stop, they said, and many Latino voters don't have flexible work schedules that will allow them to travel there.

"After observing my father's voting experience during the 2014 and 2016 general elections, I am very concerned about the burdens that will be placed on me as a voter in Dodge City," said Alejandro Rangel-Lopez, the voter named in the lawsuit, according to CNN affiliate KAKE . "During the last two elections, my father had to wait between one and two hours to cast his vote."

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