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Actually we don't expect the cheers to start pouring in from the Ohio GOP, but Secretary of State Brunner and Ohio voting documented another big win that you may have missed in the furor over AG Dann.

Cuyahoga vote audit matches primary results

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.

I guess the Ohio GOP just forgot about what happened in the Cuyohoga Primary in 2006 under Republican Secretary of State Ken Blackwell:

In the 2006 primary, Cuyahoga County used the controversial Diebold touchscreen voting machines. These machines suffered a well-publicized meltdown, in which many malfunctioned. A report from the Election Science Institute (ESI) documented significant differences between votes actually cast on the machines as opposed to those officially counte

Immediately following the election, 562,498 votes were reported cast in Cuyahoga County, with 30,791 listed as absentee or provisional ballots. But the official results show just 468,056 counted. This means that 94,442 ballots cast in the unofficial total disappeared in the official tallies, representing a shocking 16.8% of all the votes cast in Cuyahoga. 

We expect to hear "three cheers for Secretary Brunner" from the OHIO GOP any day now, but we're just not going to be foolish and hold our breath.