Boy do I love politics

Fraud alleged in voter registrations - Substitute teacher Adam Banse wanted a summer job with flexible hours, so he signed up to knock on doors in suburban Minneapolis and register people to vote.

He quit after two hours.

“They said: ‘If you bring back a bunch of Democratic cards, you'll be fired,'?” Banse alleged. “At that point, I said: ‘Whoa. Something's wrong here.'?”

He isn't alone. In several battleground states, a consulting firm financed by the Republican National Committee has been accused of deceiving would-be voters and destroying Democratic voter registration cards.

Arizona-based Sproul & Associates is under investigation in Oregon and Nevada over assertions that canvassers hired by the company were instructed to register only Republicans and to get rid of registration forms completed by Democrats.

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GOP charges voter fraud in Ohio - COLUMBUS, Ohio — Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie on Tuesday joined Ohio Republican Party Chairman Bob Bennett in launching a media campaign to counter what they called widespread voter registration fraud in nine Ohio counties.

"The reports of voter fraud in Ohio are some of the most alarming in the nation," Gillespie said.

Party officials recapped a list of allegations of voter registration fraud by canvassers working for private organizations in traditionally Democratic precincts, mostly in northern Ohio and Franklin and Hamilton counties. Among them: the attempted registration of a dead man in Cuyahoga County and Monday's arrest in Defiance County of a man accused of falsifying 130 registration cards with names like Dick Tracy and Mary Poppins in exchange for crack cocaine.