Strategic Allied Consulting (SAC), a firm employed by the Florida Republican Party, has been accused of voter registration fraud in ten counties.
Nathan Sproul, the owner of SAC, was fired by the GOP after his alleged scheme made headlines. The New York Times writes, "Mr. Sproul was once the executive director of the Arizona Republican Party. In 2004, his voter registration project was investigated by the Justice Department and the attorneys general in Arizona, Nevada and Oregon after widespread allegations of fraud surfaced, but no charges were brought." The firm also organized voter registration initiatives in Virginia, Nevada, North Carolina, and Colorado. SAC was paid $1.3 million for their voter registration efforts in Florida.
State officials have found "questionable signatures, addresses, and other identifiers" on voter registration forms in the state and believe that SAC paid its employees a quota for each Republican that they registered, an illegal offense in Florida.
The Times reports that some employees were being paid $12/hour if they collected ten registration forms.
106 questionable forms have been found in Palm Beach County, 8 in Bay County, and 3 n Pasco County.
In Bay County, the suspicious forms "had either unchecked boxes for party affiliation or signatures that looked different from previous ones." Voters also called the county office to report a change in their party affiliation, when they had not done so by their own free will.
The Arizona Republican Party intends to file a complaint against Mr. Sproul.
One woman captured a video of a SAC employee registering Republicans in Colorado, which can be found below. The Times confirms that the woman in the video was subsequently fired, according to the chairman of the Colorado Republican Party.