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Nine out of 10 drive-thru polling locations will be closed in the Houston-area county on election day.

Some background: on Monday, a federal judge had rejected a Republican request to invalidate 127,000 ballots cast in drive-thru early voting. However, he said he would have ruled against allowing such voting on election day, adding that voting needed to take place in a "structure."

In announcing the decision to close most of the drive-thru locations, Harris County Clerk Chris Hollins said on Twitter that he "cannot in good faith encourage voters to cast their votes in tents if that puts their votes at risk." The location that will remain open is the Toyota Center, which has "walls and a roof" and would fit the judge's description as a building, a county clerk spokesperson told CNN.

Demonstrators stand across the street from the federal courthouse in Houston, Texas, on Monday, before a hearing in federal court involving drive-thru ballots cast in Harris County.

(America decides) Nine of 10 drive-thru voting sites in Houston county closed