Is this the first week/month of Elite security lines at CLE? It took them a while to work out a good system at EWR. Well, admittedly they are still working it out...
But at EWR they do feed all security points from both the Elite line and the regular line. The Elite line almost always runs faster as a result because they hold up the regular line when the lines at the x-ray machines become too long but will feed Elites in regardless.
EWR also has some system where they send you over to some other checkpoint entirely when the line is too long and the line is shorter at the other checkpoint.