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Mitt Romney and the GOP have paid several firms with a long history of voter fraud allegations, and a man named Nathan Sproul — who runs most or all of them – more than $2 million recently for “voter registration” in key swing and battleground states, according to reports out today. Some of the firms, Grassroots Outreach, LLC, and Strategic Allied Consulting, share the same address in Tempe, Arizona and seem to be shell companies, according to a report, while Sproul clearly runs others, like Sproul & Associates and Lincoln Strategies.

The $2 million plus does not include these groups’ activities going back at least to 2004. Nathan Sproul (image, top) runs Strategic Allied Consulting, and possibly Grassroots Outreach, LLC.

There are several related stories, plus a video, which we’re going to put all together for you so you can see the huge implications. The first report, from Brad Friedman at Salon, the second, a video that went viral the past two days, seems to show what these contractors do, and lastly, another report, from Lee Fang at The Nation.

“The Republican Party of Florida’s top recipient of 2012 expenditures, a firm by the name of Strategic Allied Consulting, was just fired on Tuesday night, after more than 100 apparently fraudulent voter registration forms were discovered to have been turned in by the group to the Palm Beach County, FL Supervisor of Elections,” Brad Friedman, writing at Salon, reports:

The firm appears to be another shell company of Nathan Sproul, a longtime, notorious Republican operative, hired year after year by GOP Presidential campaigns, despite being accused of shredding Democratic voter registration forms in a number of states over several past elections.

According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Strategic Allied Consulting has been paid some $667,000 this year by the Florida GOP, presumably to run its voter registration campaigns in the state. That number, however, does not account for another identical payment made in August. The Palm Beach Post is reporting tonight that the firm received “more than $1.3 million” from the Republican Party of Florida “to register new voters.”

The firm is not only tied to the Florida GOP, but also to the Mitt Romney Campaign, which hired Sproul as a political consultant late last year, despite years of fraud allegations against his organizations in multiple states.

Moreover, the firm is also reportedly operating similar voter registration operations on behalf of the Republican Party, to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars, in a number of key battleground states this year, including North Carolina, Virginia and Colorado. Strategic Allied has recently taken steps to hide their ownership by Sproul’s notorious firm, Sproul & Associates.

Palm Beach County Supervisor of Election Susan Bucher confirmed to The BRAD BLOG late this evening that she turned over 106 suspicious voter registration applications to the Florida State Attorney during a meeting yesterday afternoon in Palm Beach, after the “questionable” applications were submitted to her office by a worker for Strategic Allied.

The forms were said to all have similar signatures, changed addresses and party affiliations, and other defects which appear to have all been done by the same hand.

The case emerging in Florida tonight mirrors a similar incident reported earlier this year in which more than a thousand fraudulent voter registration forms were discovered to have been turned in to the Sacramento County, CA Registrar of Voters by a group hired by that state’s Republican Party.

But Strategic Allied Consulting is not the only case of its kind, as a massive GOP voter registration scheme, which could involve the upper-echelons of the national party, appears to be underway.

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Originally posted by Niki2:
But I'm NOT shocked by the story itself, seen far too many like it

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I wonder what ever happened to the whole black box voting scandal? Because THAT was what swung Florida in 2000, and what swung six states in 2004. (Perped by Repubs)

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