Times Online reports:

John McCain paid $175,000 of campaign money to a Republican operative accused of massive voter registration fraud in several states, it has emerged.

Nathan Sproul, in his various corporate incarnations, has been previously accused, by former employees, of dirty campaign tricks that have included setting up registration tables at public libraries that purport to be for non-partisan voter registration drives, then throwing out all democratic party registrants' cards.

In May this year, both ACORN and Mr Sproul were discussed at a hearing of the House subcommittee on commercial and administrative law. One Republican member, Congressman Chris Cannon, concluded: "The difference between ACORN and Sproul is that ACORN doesn't throw away or change registration documents after they have been filled out."

Darn that ACORN!