CNN is reporting that the death of an election judge has forced a Texas county to extend voting in the region by two hours.

In a message passed across by Judge Clay Jenkins, the overnight demise of the unnamed judge has forced this extension, while there are concerns about how the judge lost his life at such a crucial period of the nation’s democracy.

According to CNN: “Polls in Dallas County will stay open until 9 p.m. CST after voting was delayed in the morning due to the death of the judge, whose name was not immediately released. A county official also declined to say how the judge died.”

Read Jenkins’s tweets below:

Hours have been extended until 9pm for the Warnack Library voting location. Ballots cast after 7pm are provisional pending….(1 of 2)

— Judge Clay Jenkins (@JudgeClayJ) November 8, 2016

…further review of statute and judicial authority. (2 of 2)

— Judge Clay Jenkins (@JudgeClayJ) November 8, 2016

Order relating to extension of hours at Precinct 4502, Betty Warmack Library in Grand Prairie pic.twitter.com/l9enNj4vSo

— Judge Clay Jenkins (@JudgeClayJ) November 8, 2016