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Nathan Sproul |
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Republican strategist and
political consultant for numerous election
campaigns. Sproul is the managing director of
Lincoln Strategy Group, an international political
consulting firm based in Arizona. He is a former
executive director of the Arizona Republican Party
and the Arizona Christian Coalition. Nathan started
his own firm, Sproul & Associates in 2004. Also in
2004, he worked with the effort of removing the
Arizona Clean Elections law formed in the spring by
Representative Jeff Flake, an Arizona Republican.
The ballot initiative would have essentially
repealed Arizona's Clean Elections campaign finance
system. Sproul was hired by No Taxpayer Money for
Politicians to conduct a signature drive to get the
anti-Clean Elections bill on the ballot. It failed
its single subject challenge, with Attorney Lisa
Hauser representing the inititiative. Also during
the 2004 election, it was alleged that Sproul's
company had set up voter registration drives on
their premises under the name "America Votes", a
name already claimed by a large, progressive
organization. According to a 2005 Baltimore
Chronicle article, the Republican Party had paid
Nathan Sproul $8,359,161, and alleged this is far
more than what had been reported to the FEC. |
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Inside Kanye’s Operation To Ratf*ck Biden In
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"Kanye West’s
presidential campaign appears to have hired
a pair of Republican consultants who have
been dogged by allegations of ethically
questionable organizing practices over the
years. The A-list rapper’s political team
has brought on Nathan Sproul, a seasoned GOP
operative who leads one of the party’s go-to
grassroots strategy firms. Sproul, in turn,
appears to be working with an obscure GOP
operative with a sketchy history of work on
Sproul’s behalf to build a get-out-the-vote
operation for West in the swing state of
Iowa." |
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Sep. 15, 2020 |
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Trump, GOP Paying Consultant Dogged By Voter
Fraud Charges |
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"Donald Trump’s
campaign and the Republican National
Committee have paid at least $1.8 million to
a political operative whose roster of
companies include several that have been
repeatedly investigated for voter
registration fraud, even as Trump has
complained that the election is rigged
against him. Three employees of Strategic
Allied Consulting, a firm owned by
conservative operative Nathan Sproul,
pleaded guilty in Florida four years ago to
felony charges related to altering and
destroying scores of voter registration
forms." |
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Nov. 5, 2016 |
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Fired RNC
Consultant Preps Get-Out-The-Vote
Campaign |
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"Nathan Sproul,
whose career as a GOP get-out-the-vote
consultant has been dogged by reports of
fraudulent registrations, has been
advertising for $15-an-hour workers for
“conservative voter identification” in
Virginia, Wisconsin and Iowa. [...] The RNC
sent more than $3 million to state party
committees to fund Sproul’s get-out-the-vote
efforts this year. The Republican Party of
Florida filed an elections fraud complaint
released Friday against Strategic Allied
Consultants, and authorities began an
investigation after suspect forms cropped up
in 10 Florida counties. Other suspicious
forms tied to Sproul have turned up in North
Carolina, and there have been scattered
reports of registration irregularities in
Nevada and Colorado. In Florida’s Okaloosa
County, election supervisor Paul Lux
reported that he saw
forms that had
missing information and possibly a dead
voter, according to the complaint. “Another
application contained the name ‘Robert
Johnson’ with a street address of ‘Wexler
Street,’ the complaint says. “The
application was signed by ‘Robert Wexler’”
instead of Robert Johnson." |
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Oct. 12, 2012 |
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Cummings
Issues Statement On Nathan Sproul’s Refusal
To Cooperate With
Congressional Investigation |
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"Today, Rep. Elijah E.
Cummings, Ranking Member of the House
Committee on Oversight and Government
Reform, issued a statement in response to a
letter from an attorney for Nathan Sproul
stating that he will not cooperate with a
congressional investigation into voter fraud
allegations against his company, Strategic
Allied Consulting." |
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Oct. 12, 2012 |
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Nathan Sproul, At The Center Of Voter
Registration Fraud Probes, Created A
Dizzying Web Of Limited Liability Companies
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"According to the
Arizona Secretary of State archives, Nathan Sproul’s address at 80 E. Salado Parkway,
Suites 814 and 817, in Tempe, Arizona, has
been home to 27 companies. Those companies
clearly show Sproul as the agent, principal,
or member of the company. Two other
companies incorporated in other states use
Sproul’s office address, but do not link him
to the firm: Strategic Allied Consulting,
registered in Virginia, and Grassroots
Outreach LLC, registered in California and
Nevada." |
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Oct. 3, 2012 |
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Businessman Who GOP
Cut Ties With At
Center Of Voter
Fraud Probe In
Florida |
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Oct. 2, 2012 |
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"The man at the
center of a
voter-fraud
investigation in
Florida is a
longtime GOP
operative with a
pugnacious streak
and a controversial
history among
Republicans and
Democrats for his
aggressive tactics
in registering
voters. |
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Nathan Sproul is a
businessman who rose
rapidly in Arizona
politics, heading
the local Christian
Coalition and the
state Republican
Party in his
mid-20s. A series of
voter-fraud
allegations against
him in 2004 did not
slow his ascent:
Sproul and firms
linked to him have
been paid $21.2
million by the
Republican Party,
its candidates and
affiliated interest
groups over the past
nine years. |
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But the man who once
accused his
Democratic critics
of having
“hysterical fits”
now finds himself
isolated
politically. Nine
Florida counties
reported to the
state that hundreds
of
voter-registration
forms submitted by
Sproul’s firm
contained
irregularities such
as suspicious
signatures and
missing information.
State law
enforcement
authorities are
investigating the
allegations. A
spokesman for Sproul
denied any
improprieties,
saying Sproul’s firm
“has never tolerated
even minimal
violations of
election law when
registering
voters.’’ |
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Late last week, the
party that Sproul
has worked so hard
to build severed
ties with him. GOP
officials in
Florida, who had
paid Sproul’s
Strategic Allied
Consulting $1.3
million this
election cycle to
help register and
turn out voters,
filed an election
complaint against
his firm with state
officials." |
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"In 2004, former
canvassers for
Sproul’s firm came
forward in four
states alleging that
they were told to
register only
Republicans, with
some saying that
registration forms
completed by
Democrats were
thrown out. The
Justice Department
investigated the
allegations but did
not bring charges,
according to
congressional
testimony. |
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At the time, Sproul
accused Democrats of
“having hysterical
fits about how well
we did our job”... |
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Romney Quietly Hires
Consulting Firm With
Sordid History Of
Destroying
Democratic Voter
Registration Forms |
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"Late last year,
Mitt Romney’s
presidential
campaign began
paying Nathan Sproul, a political
consultant with a
long history of
destroying
Democratic voter
registration forms
and manipulating
ballot initiatives.
Sproul, who changed
his firm’s name from
Sproul and
Associates to
Lincoln Strategies,
has received over
$70,000 from
Romney’s campaign." |
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Jun. 6, 2012 |
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Team Bush Paid Millions To Nathan Sproul—And
Tried To Hide It |
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""In the months before the
2004 presidential election, a firm called Sproul &
Associates launched voter registration drives in at
least eight states, most of them swing states. The
group--run by Nathan Sproul, former head of the
Arizona Christian Coalition and the Arizona
Republican Party--had been hired by the Republican
National Committee. Sproul got into a bit of trouble
last fall when, in certain states, it came out that
the firm was playing dirty tricks in order to
suppress the Democratic vote: concealing their
partisan agenda, tricking Democrats into registering
as Republicans, surreptitiously re-registering
Democrats and Independents as Republicans, and
shredding Democratic registration forms." |
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Jul. 5, 2005 |
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The Smoking Gun On
Voter Registration
Fraud: Nathan Sproul |
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Oct. 13, 2004 |
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Sproul was ...
instrumental in
getting petitions
signed for Ralph
Nader to get on the
ballot in -
surprise! - swing
states! Here is the
first page of a
Google search on
Nathan Sproul. Some
real gems turn up: |
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Here is the article
from the WV paper
for more info. |
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