A consultant working the election campaign for U.S. Rep. John Hall, D-Dover, had her contract terminated over reports linking her to alleged voter registration improprieties.Amy Little, who served as consultant for Hall in his race against Republican challenger Kieran Michael Lalor, left the campaign Tuesday.
Susan Spear, Hall's campaign director, said Little left the campaign after a posting on a blog by an associate professor of psychology at Grove City College in Pennsylvania mentioned Little was one of a group of about 150 people with sketch residencies who are registered to vote in Franklin County, Ohio.
"We called her to find out what the facts were and based on our conversation, her contract terminated," Spear said.
Current records show Little residing in New Paltz, but according to the blog, http://wthrockmorton.com, Little is registered to vote in Ohio. Little is residing in the headquarters of Vote Today Ohio, a grassroots group that supports Barack Obama.
"The VTO program is designed to help voters avoid a repeat of the notorious long lines, broken machines, and GOP intimidation faced by hundreds of thousands of disenfranchised Ohioans in 2004," reads a line from one of the group's press releases.
Pam Kapoor, a spokeswoman for Vote Today Ohio, said Little was part of a group of five or six people who had been living at the headquarters for the past three months. She said it wasn't uncommon, calling the news "much ado about nothing."
Prior to serving as a consultant with Hall's campaign, Little served as Hall's campaign manager in 2006. "In this campaign, she was simply playing a small consulting role - basically to provide institutional memory from the 2006 campaign," Spear said.
The Journal was unable to reach Franklin County officials Wednesday night.