Updated at 4:55 p.m.: To include Harris County extending nine polling locations' hours to 8 p.m.

AUSTIN — Voters in Arlington reported that some of the machines at a polling location weren't working the morning of Election Day.

Daisy Martinez, a Texas deputy registrar and poll greeter in Addison, said an Arlington woman reported to her that none of the voting machines at T.A. Howard Middle School were working Tuesday morning, so the poll workers started giving out paper ballots — but for only one precinct.

“People not registered in that precinct couldn’t vote, so many had to leave,” Martinez said. “The woman who told me about it said she left but later went back and the location had paper ballots for other precincts. I don’t know whether other people who left were able to return.”

Martinez said as of 1:30 p.m., she hadn’t heard whether the machines had been fixed.

After a tweet from a CNN political reporter about the voting situation began circulating on Twitter, the Texas Civil Rights Project tweeted a hotline for voters to report issues.

“This is extremely troubling. If you are one of the voters in Arlington that left a polling place without having voted due to broken machines and a lack of paper ballots, please call us now,” the voting rights organization tweeted Tuesday at noon.

This is extremely troubling. If you are one of the voters in Arlington that left a polling place without having voted due to broken machines and a lack of paper ballots, please call us now at 866-OUR-VOTE!! https://t.co/yBFD8SK9Ob — Texas Civil Rights Project (@TXCivilRights) November 6, 2018

At 2:30 p.m., Texas Civil Rights Project spokesman Zenén Jaimes Perez told The News his organization received several responses to their tweet and is looking into the situation.

The U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday that it would monitor Tarrant County on Election Day for compliance with federal voting rights laws.

According to the Texas secretary of state, Tarrant County uses voting machines from Hart InterCivic, the company that makes the eSlate machines that early voters reported were flipping their straight-ticket ballots. The company said their machines work fine, and any problems are a result of user error.

In addition to Arlington, at least 18 voting locations in Harris County opened late or experienced issues with voting machines operating, the Texas Tribune reported. Harris also uses machines from Hart InterCivic.

The Tribune reported that poll workers at Pleasantville Elementary School in Houston told voters only seven of their 14 machines were working Tuesday morning. After voter Crystal Brumfield waited in line for 20 minutes, she was told all the machines had stopped working, according to the Tribune.

"They were not charged overnight or ... had been charged but stopped working for some reason," she told the Tribune. "Their direction was, if you can, just come later because they're not expecting them to be fully charged until the afternoon."

After the Texas Civil Rights Project and the Texas Organizing Project filed a lawsuit against Harris County on Tuesday afternoon, the county extended voting by an hour to 8 p.m. at nine locations. The sites either opened late or had voting machine problems.

In Dallas County, a polling location at the Rice Chapel AME Church in east Oak Cliff was reported to have a broken ballot counter.

Election Judge Ruth Wyrick said the ballot counter was not working for about an hour and a half on Election Day. Some voters waited for the machine to be fixed while others walked away.

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