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Congressman demands probe of voter registration "scandal"

A South Florida Congressman is demanding that Governor Rick Scott launch an investigation into possible voter registration fraud involving the Republican Party. The problem first came to light in the disputed-ballot capitol of the country -- Palm Beach County.

So far, election officials in ten Florida counties have informed state prosecutors about questionable voter registration forms filled out on behalf of the Republican Party of Florida. The first was Palm Beach County's Elections Supervisor, who said her staff noticed signatures that looked alike, incomplete entries and other irregularities on over a hundred voter registration forms submitted in early September.

On Monday, Democratic Congressman Ted Deutch of Boca Raton wrote a letter to Governor Rick Scott demanding the creation of a bi-partisan investigative task force.

"We have a Governor who, for months, has waged this campaign against illusionary voter fraud -- voter fraud that doesn't exist,” said Deutch. “Now that he's confronted with voter fraud that's potentially on an enormous scale, he's gotta move forward since we have an election that's right around the corner," he said.

Deutch is referring to the Governor's attempt to purge as many as 26-hundred people flagged as non-citizens from Florida's voter rolls. It was discovered later that most of them were, in fact, eligible to vote.

The Florida GOP has already fired Strategic Allied Consulting, the vendor it hired to register voters. Two days later, the Republican National Committee cut its ties to the company.

The RNC paid Strategic some three-million dollars for voter registration work in four other key swing states for the 2012 Presidential election. In Florida alone, the GOP paid the company 1.3 million dollars to register voters.