RNC cuts ties with firm over voter registration fraud allegations

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Republican Voter Registration Fraud Investigation Spreads to 10 Florida Counties:

WASHINGTON — Florida elections officials said Friday that at least 10 counties have identified suspicious and possibly fraudulent voter registration forms turned in by a firm working for the Republican Party of Florida, which has filed an election fraud complaint with the state Division of Elections against its one-time consultant.

The controversy in Florida -- which began with possibly fraudulent forms that first cropped up in Palm Beach County -- has engulfed the Republican National Committee, which admitted Thursday that it urged state parties in seven swing states to hire the firm, Strategic Allied Consulting.

The RNC paid the company at least $3.1 million -- routed through the state parties of Florida, Nevada, Colorado, North Carolina and Virginia -- to register voters and run get-out-the-vote operations. Wisconsin and Ohio had not yet paid the firm for get-out-the-vote operations it was contracted to do.

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http://www.latimes.com/news/politics...,7654954.story

The guy the GOP hired for it's swing state registrations and recommended:

"Nathan Sproul has been previously accused of suppressing Democratic voter turnout, throwing away registration forms and manipulating ballot initiatives.

His firms -- formerly Sproul & Associates, Lincoln Strategy and Strategic Allied Consultants -- had previously worked for RNC voter-registration efforts during the campaigns of George W. Bush and John McCain.

In 2004, Democratic Sens.Leahy and Kennedy sent a letter to then-Attorney General John Ashcroft requesting he "launch an immediate investigation into the activities of Mr. Sproul and his firm." But the request did not lead to any criminal charges against Sproul."