Common Cause, a government reform group, has asked the Campaign Finance Board to investigate Andrew Cuomo’s campaign for what it says are potential violations of campaign finance laws.

In a formal complaint on Tuesday, Susan Lerner, the executive director of the group, wrote that consulting and polling services provided by Tusk Strategies, a lobbying firm, are in-kind contributions, and that they go against strict spending limits imposed on candidates.

This comes after the Cuomo campaign was last week docked a total of $1.3 million in money from the city’s 8-to-1 public matching funds program for suspected improper coordination between the campaign and a super PAC.

“We believe that such an investigation will lead the board to the same conclusion that we have arrived at: the serio

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