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Republicans Looking to Steal Election (Again)?

Are Republicans resorting to criminal activity in order to sway the election in battleground states?

Colin Small, a Pennsylvania man originally reported to have been working as a contractor for the Republican Party of Virginia was arrested by the Rockingham County, Va., Sheriff’s Office on Thursday and charged with attempting to destroy voter registration forms by tossing them into a dumpster behind a shopping center in Harrisonburg, Va.  Small, a former intern for Pennsylvania Congressman Mike Kelly R-PA, was working for the Republican National Committee and was also associated with the firm Strategic Allied Consulting. 

Strategic Allied Consulting had been paid significantly by the Florida Republican Party, either $667K or $1.3M depending on the media outlet reporting, to manage its voter registration campaigns.  Strategic was fired in late September 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.  No data is available as to how many total voter registration forms had been turned in by the group to all counties across the state of Florida, or how many of those total registrations are fraudulent.

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