From Cleveland.com:

Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner has rejected calls to double-check a portion of the May 4 primary election results.

An election law professor at Cleveland State University who proposed the audit said it is needed because the state’s voting machines are untrustworthy, and because it would dispel any notion that Brunner, who was on the ballot as a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, abused her power as the state’s elections chief.

“Auditing is one of the checks that we need on this kind of [voting] equipment,” said Candice Hoke, an election law professor at Cleveland State University. “It’s not perfect, and it’s rather foolhardy if we treat it as if it is.”

Hoke and three others who have studied and developed auditing techniques put together the audit proposal. They said it would cost about $30,000 — a fee covered by money they raised.

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