Project Orca: How an IT disaster destroyed Republicans get-out-the-vote effort

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Submitted by cheesecake23 on Friday November 09, 2012 @03:07PM

cheesecake23 writes "Many talking heads have attributed Obama's success to an unmatched "ground game". Now, inside reports from campaign volunteers suggest that Project Orca, a republican tech-based voter monitoring effort with 37000 volunteers in swing states, turned out to be an epic failure due to dismal IT. Problems ranged from state-wide incorrect PINs, to misleading and lately distributed information packets to volunteers, a server outage and missing redirection of secure URLs."
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by cheesecake23 (1110663) writes:

Forgot to add this great tweet [twitchy.com] by the author to the final story: "Long story short: Don't beta-test an election."
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  by cheesecake23 (1110663) writes:
  
  Also, the summary should probably say "... with 37000 election-day volunteers in swing states". No more edits now, I promise.

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