FILE - Bridgeport city employee Wanda Geter-Pataky, center, works with her lawyer, John R. Gulash, right, to know which questions to answer so as not to incriminate herself during her testimony in Bridgeport Democratic Primary Mayoral candidate John Gomes' challenge of absentee ballots in Superior Court in Bridgeport, Conn., Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. Four campaign workers have been charged with mishandling absentee ballots during the 2019 Democratic mayoral primary in Connecticut’s largest city, including Geter-Pataky who is at the center of a similar controversy that occurred during the recent mayoral primary. (Brian A. Pounds/Hearst Connecticut Media via AP, Pool, File)