What started as an isolated voter-registration controversy in Florida is quickly expanding — and becoming an ACORN-style headache for the Republican Party.
A man who was being paid to register voters by the Republican Party of Virginia was arrested Thursday after he was seen dumping eight registration forms into a dumpster.
Colin Small, 31, was working as a supervisor as part of a registration operation in eight swing states financed by the Republican National Committee. Small, of Phoenixville, Pa., was first hired by Strategic Allied Consulting, a firm that was fired by the party after suspect voter forms surfaced in Florida and other states.
The owner of a store in Harrisonburg, Va., told a local television station that he became suspicious when he saw a car with Pennsylvania plates dump an envelope in back of his store. He recovered the envelope and alerted authorities.
Small was hired as a supervisor by Strategic Allied Consulting, which happens to be owned by Nathan Sproul. And who’s Nathan Sproul? He’s the Republican consultant with a lengthy record of scandals and accusations of fraud, who was hired to oversee the RNC’s voter-registration efforts in swing states — right up until Sproul’s firm was caught allegedly submitting fraudulent voter registration forms in Florida.
Sean Spicer, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee, which paid more than $3 million to state committees to hire Sproul’s firm, said Small was immediately fired, which is nice, but doesn’t address what appears to be a larger series of 2012 election crimes.









