Many African-American and Latino churches in presidential battleground states are passing out voter registration cards and pledging caravans of “souls to the polls” to deliver votes in November’s election, according to the Miami Herald. Read more.

Salon.com offers a brief history of Strategic Allied Consulting, a consulting firm that has been repeatedly employed by the Republican Party, with sometimes controversial results. Read more.

A Florida Sun Sentinel columnist contends that Florida’s non-citizen voter purge tackles a problem that largely doesn’t exist. Read more.

Ten Florida counties have reported suspicious voter registration forms connected to Strategic Allied Consulting, the firm hired by the state Republican Party to sign up new voters, according to a report in The New York Times. Read more.

The most intense battles over new restrictive voting laws is taking place in key presidential battleground states led by Republicans, including Wisconsin, Florida and Ohio, according to a report in the Tampa Bay Times. Read more.

The Miami Herald discusses the fall-out from the Republic Party’s insistence that presidential battleground states hire Strategic Allied Consulting for voter registration drives. Read more.

A firm that is under fire in Palm Beach County for filing potentially flawed voter registration forms also filed forms in at least eight other counties, according to a report in the Tampa Bay Times. Read more.

Slate.com considers whether strict new voter registration laws could actually motivate voters concerned about disenfranchisement to show up at the polls. Read more.

ProPublica offers a guide to True the Vote, the controversial watchdog group that has been gaining national attention for its aggressive efforts to weed out voter fraud. Read more.

The Associated Press and the Herald-Tribune newspaper report that Republicans have fired a vendor suspected of submitting questionable new voter registrations in Palm Beach County. Read more.