Heh. Yeah, that's what the Republicans are running around telling everyone..."we discovered and reported it". Bull.
Cheryl Johnson, Lee County's voter registration director, noticed irregularities and asked for an explanation from Strategic Allied Consulting (and actually met with them and a Republican official), who never got back to her with a response. She notified law enforcement. After the media broke the story, the RNC fired SAC and "reported" it to election officials.
To top it all off, the founder of SAC, Nathan Sproul, is notorious for having done the EXACT SAME THING back in 2004 (changing registrations, ripping up Democratic registrations, etc). He told the LA Times he was specifically asked by the RNC to create Strategic Allied Consulting in order to distance themselves from his previous actions. Clearly, they knew who and what they were hiring. And why.
LA Times
I really hate when the truth gets twisted around.