FILE - Town Clerk Barbara Thompson gets ready to bring nearly 7,000 absentee ballots to the post office from Wallingford Town Hall, Friday, Oct. 2, 2020, in Wallingford, Conn.(Dave Zajac/Record-Journal via AP, File)

FILE - Manuel Alcantara deposits absentee ballots for his son and daughter in a dropbox outside City Hall in Bridgeport, Conn., Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Haigh, File)

FILE - Voters mark their ballots at First Presbyterian Church on Election Day, Nov. 3, 2020, in Stamford, Conn. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)