Republicans on Thursday fired a vendor suspected of submitting 108 questionable new voter registrations in Florida's Palm Beach County, ground zero for disputed ballots in 2000's presidential race.
The Republican Party of Florida used Virginia-based Strategic Allied Consulting to help register and turnout voters in Florida, one of a shrinking handful of states President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney are contesting. The Florida state party had paid the firm more than $1.3 million so far, and the Republican National Committee used the group for almost $3 million of work in Nevada, North Carolina, Colorado and Virginia.
"We
have zero tolerance for any threat to the integrity of elections. When
we were informed of an alleged incident we immediately cut all ties to
the company," RNC Communications Director Sean Spicer said.
The state party similarly sought to distance itself from the firm and its main operative, Nathan Sproul.
"We
immediately informed the Republican National Committee that we were
terminating the contract with the voter-registration vendor we hired at
their request because there is no place for voter-registration fraud in
Florida," state Republican Party Executive Director Mike Grissom said in
a statement.
Strategic Allied
Consulting said the suspected forms came from one person and the
company was cooperating with elections officials in Florida.
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