CPAs from both major political parties will work together with local election reform groups in going over the numbers generated by the County's new electronic voting machines. Last month, the Board of Elections authorized the committee just to audit the numbers generated by the touch-screen units. The group has now requested that to be extended to the absentee ballots, as well. Candace Hoke of Cleveland State's Center for Election Integrity is a member of the Public Audit Committee and she says the bi-partisan group is working on a long-neglected problem.
Candace Hoke: It's not going to have as much to do with generating a successful election as to provide the checks and verifications that we as a public should have been demanding for decades, instead of a "trust us" approach.
The New York-based Brennan Center for Justice will serve as a consultant for the public audit, due to its expertise in electronic voting. The audit is scheduled to start on Thursday - two days after the election. David C. Barnett, 90.3.