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Project ORCA- The face of the future - Machiavelli - 11-11-2012 12:26 PM
Here's a Business Daily article about the failures of it, but understand that this is the future.
http://www.businessinsider.com/romney-project-orca-disaster-2012-11
This is what two other volunteers on the O-Zone had to say about it. They both were Ohio volunteers for the Romney camp.
One "Meat" his handle, had no problem and it worked all day long.
the other "Eduardo" crashed and burned. Total failure.
The point I'm trying to make is that it did work. "Meat" was a "poll watcher" updated his precinct and they contacted people who didn't vote yet.
I'm intrigued by this whole thing. The Obama campaign had the Excel sheet lady at my house two weeks before. I think Romney was banking on this ORCA project. This is our future. Now it's a grey area on whether this whole thing is even legal. Laws need to be passed or the most organized ground game is destined to win. You just have to sit back listen to a person say their name and cross it off your list. This is the future of the GOTV effort.
RE: Project ORCA- The face of the future - Machiavelli - 11-11-2012 12:33 PM
It's easy to point fingers after a loss and I wouldn't normally do it, but consider what happened.
Project Orca was supposed to enable poll watchers to record voter names on their smartphones, by listening for names as voters checked in. This would give the campaign real-time turnout data, so they could redirect GOTV resources throughout the day where it was most needed. They recruited 37,000 swing state volunteers for this.
I worked on the Colorado team, and we were called by hundreds (or more) volunteers who couldn't use the app or the backup phone system. The usernames and passwords were wrong, but the reset password tool didn't work, and we couldn't change phone PINs. We were told the problems were limited and asked to project confidence, have people use pencil and paper, and try to submit again later.
Then at 6PM they admitted they had issued the wrong PINs to every volunteer in Colorado, and reissued new PINs (which also didn't work). Meanwhile, counties where we had hundreds of volunteers, such as Denver Colorado, showed zero volunteers in the system all day, but we weren't allowed to add them. In one area, the head of the Republican Party plus 10 volunteers were all locked out. The system went down for a half hour during peak voting, but for hundreds or more, it never worked all day. Many of the poll watchers I spoke with were very discouraged. Many members of our phone bank got up and left.
I do not know if the system was totally broken, or if I just saw the worst of it. But I wonder, because they told us all day that most volunteers were submitting just fine, yet admitted at the end that all of Colorado had the wrong PIN's. They also said the system projected every swing state as pink or red.
Regardless of the specific difficulties, this idea would only help if executed extremely well. Otherwise, those 37,000 swing state volunteers should have been working on GOTV...
Somebody messaged me privately after my email and told me that North Carolina had the same problems -- every pin was wrong and not fixed until 6PM -- and was also told it was localized to North Carolina.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/11/08/Orca-How-the-Romney-Campaign-Suppressed-Its-Own-Vote
RE: Project ORCA- The face of the future - Machiavelli - 11-12-2012 10:22 AM
bump.
Anyone here a part of this??? Did it go smoothly for you????
RE: Project ORCA- The face of the future - HuskieFan84 - 11-12-2012 10:32 AM
Curious if this hurt the GOTV in Illinois. Obviously the presidential race was a given here, but thought Robert Dold had a good chance going into election day and lost a close race. District next to mine, but I'd have voted for him if I could have, fiscally conservative, socially moderate.
RE: Project ORCA- The face of the future - UCF08 - 11-12-2012 11:53 AM
I don't see how that would work in any of the two separate locations I've ever voted in, there simply isn't anywhere one could sit and listen to names being said. And aren't there regulations on how close to the voting booth one can be when working with a campaign?
RE: Project ORCA- The face of the future - Machiavelli - 11-12-2012 12:04 PM
Now you know why the GOP sued to be election watchers in Pa. last Tuesday. They thought the Orca would eat the Narwhal.
RE: Project ORCA- The face of the future - Fort Bend Owl - 11-12-2012 12:33 PM
When I read about this the other day, my first thought was some tech-savvy Democrats hacked ORCA so it wouldn't work. But after reading about it a bit more, I now think that the whole system was silly and an invasion of privacy. And that it still may have been hacked into.