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Associated Press - April 21, 2009 5:54 PM ET
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard says a hand recount of a disputed Pima County election upholds the original results.
Goddard said on Tuesday that because there's no evidence of criminal wrongdoing the case is now closed.
Voters approved a 20-year regional transportation plan and an accompanying half-cent sales tax increase by a wide margin in 2006. Goddard was trying to determine if the vote was rigged by someone tampering with computerized polling machines and turning "no" votes into "yes" votes.
But four previous measures had been rejected, and Democratic and Libertarian party officials contended that the 2006 measures passed because of fraud.
Nearly 120,000 ballots were recounted by Maricopa County officials and reaffirmed the original tally.
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