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Cuyahoga County can count

Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner -- elected with help from the Secretary of State Project -- can claim a new victory today.

CLEVELAND (AP) - The elections board in Cuyahoga County says a hand-count audit of votes from the presidential primary matches the results from scanned paper ballots.

A sample of 30,000 paper ballots from 99 precincts were hand-counted by teams composed of Republicans and Democrats last week.

Board of Elections Deputy Director Pat McDonald said Monday that the voluntary audit was part of a pilot program of Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner to help determine consistency and performance of high-speed optical scanning.

Cuyahoga County switched to high-speed optical scan from touch-screen electronic voting for the March 4 primary.

It was SoS Brunner who required Cuyahoga County to switch from DREs to optical scan ballots. Finally Cuyahoga County can count.


Posted by Becky Bond on May 6, 2008 12:32 PM | Permalink

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