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Last week the rnc severed all ties to him because the company was allegedly falsifying registrations on behalf of mitt romney. michael isikoff has been following this story and he joins us live from washington. mike, can you explain why the rnc would appoint this mans company when there were already allegations against him dating back to 2004? >> right. there certainly had been quite a bit of controversy around mr. stroul in the past. he had been accused of voter possession, throwing away democr...

Nathan sproul, who runs the company, was doing this should have been a known quantity to the republicans who hired him because the los angeles times writes his reputation is such that when he was tapped by the rnc to do field work, officials requested he set up a new firm to avoid being publicly linked to the past allegations. sproul told the times the firm has set up with a virginia address and sproul does not show up on the corporate paperwork. they knew they were dealing with is somewhat slea...

Feels theyre being intimidated can call their nearest fbi office because it is a federal offense to harass someone think about all the people that worked so hard and struggled and went to prison and put their life on the line for the right to vote. >> nor -- >> you know, we werent born yesterday. we know whats happening here. >> no question about it. i want you to replay, did wrn -- someone out registering voters for one party, what do you think of that. >> thats against the law. i used to go ou...

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For him. so i think he really needs to take the debate very seriously as a way to discuss what he means -- what it means to move this country forward. he shouldnt get into the games of it and the zingers and the back and forth. he doesnt want to be mean either. so i think he should just take this as an opportunity to talk about his policies. >> nera and robert, definitely not rick perry as i was looking down at my notes. thanks to both of you. have a great weekend. >> thank you. you, too. nbc ...

Republicans in five battleground states. they hire thousands of workers, over 2,000 in florida, paying them about $12 an hour to go out, go door to door, get registration forms from republican voters. what happens is a couple weeks ago one of the workers drops off at a palm beach county satellite office 308 new registration forms. they go through, the workers go through it, find repeated problems in about 108 of them, including similar signatures, apparently phony signatures, and phony addresses...

Problems and create new controversy over him. well, that turned out not to be the case, obviously. strategic allied consulting does link back to nathan sproul and employees of his firm linked to allegations of registration fraud in florida. >> some of the information on the florida voter registration forms were trying to register people with addresses in new york, in one instance a couple was being reregistered to an address in miami that is a shell gas station. >> right. what we have is we also...

A joke saying that dane county is projecting 119% turnout. i said thats got to be a joke. its no joke. its because so many people are doing same day registration at the polls. so many new voters are coming out. its really an amazing thing to see because the republicans have tried so hard to suppress new voters and suppress the student vote. instead, were seeing people coming out and registering. were seeing lines so long they are returning out of registration forms. its turnout like we have not ...

Pennsylvania? >> i am not sure. >> greta: ill tell you, i do know. i knew its $10, i didnt mean a trick question. its not totally free. is pennsylvania for benefit that cant pay the $10 are they willing to waive that fee. it seems what the biggest gripe about this about these voter ids people cant afford it or cant get to the place to get them. im trying to get rid of cost part in pennsylvania. will pennsylvania pay for the underlining documents? >> there is a cost to cast a vote. you have to ge...

Pennsylvania? >> i am not sure. >> greta: ill tell you, i do know. i knew its $10, i didnt mean a trick question. its not totally free. is pennsylvania for benefit that cant pay the $10 are they willing to waive that fee. it seems what the biggest gripe about this about these voter ids people cant afford it or cant get to the place to get them. im trying to get rid of cost part in pennsylvania. will pennsylvania pay for the underlining documents? >> there is a cost to cast a vote. you have to ge...