Yep.
Posted on 11/09/2012 8:18:19 PM PST by quicksilver123
I was one of those 30,000 around the country that wasted their day this past Tuesday trying to get Orca to work. Here in central Virginia, it was as bad as everything you've heard. I slugged it out with Boston from 6:30 am to 7 pm, and tried every way I could think of to make it work, probably for no good purpose.
The "app" itself couldn't be used ahead of time, I was assigned to go to one precinct on Tuesday, then got contrary instructions on Wednesday (the week before the election), was invited to call into a conference call on Sunday that I could not access, and tried to get into the system all weekend and even Monday night without success. Tuesday morning I got a call at 6:20 am from a young man in Boston who didn't know a lot more than I did about what was going on, and then 20 minutes later I got a call from a young woman who thought my name was Mike (it isn't).
Luckily I had gotten a certification letter in advance, so that wasn't an issue, but I spent hours working my ass off checking people off manually, while at the same time calling my contact in Boston, trying to use the back-up plan to call in the people who had voted, and finally insisting that someone take down the list of the people who had voted, which at first they didn't want to do, claiming they didn't have the authorization to do so.
Finally about 2 pm, Boston told me that I might be able to get the actual app to work if I went into "settings" on my iphone and "allowed" pop-ups. Once I did that, it all worked but I had the very bad feeling that it was too late and that no one would actually be able to do anything with this data I was killing myself to acquire. I agree that 30,000 plus people (I'm now told there were 37,000 of us from my Boston contact) wasted their time on the day we lost the election and the country.
I think ORCA lost us the election. This was a tactical error on the magnitude of the Maginot Line. Someone should be taken out and shot, hopefully tomorrow morning at dawn. It's all especially tragic because I'd come to realize that Mr. Romney was a very good and decent man, and would have been just the President we needed. Too late now…
Whale FAIL.
Yep.
Sure! It was ORCA. No fraud. None.
Just ORCA. Bad choices........Whatever.
Like people trying to save the country depend on friggin ORCA.
Fortunately I was spared. They didn’t even get me my credentials.
Are you aware of conservative sites being shut down pretty much when something important comes up.
Romney ...would have been just the President we needed.
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yeah, well...
Guess we’ll just have to struggle on somehow...
It’s all especially tragic because I’d come to realize that Mr. Romney was a very good and decent man,
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just not too bright...
Plenty of fraud... i believe that. Something doesn’t smell right about any of this, but I can’t put my finger on it. Thing is with ORCA, as a veteran campaign worker I am willing to be a soldier and go where they need me. I walked Blue collar union neighborhoods 500 miles from home in 2004, and have spent countless election days at the polls as a precinct captain from 5:30 am till the polls closed. This year, this is what they asked me to do. I figured someone knew what they were doing, but clearky they didn’t
I didn’t need ORCA to know that it was critical that I go vote and I’m sure you didn’t either, but every election there are people that you need to drag and cajole to the polls. The other side had “Vote Vans” driving around neighborhoods in Ohio trolling for people who wanted a ride to the polls. We wasted the energy of 30,000 plus people who spent the day battling with the smart phones, and with Boston...
ORCA lost us the election
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yeah well Willard mustnt be a well read man or he would have known that Moby Dick killed Capn Ahab’s chances too...
A good politician can talk convincingly to everyone — Black, Brown, Oriental,old white guys, young chicks, old maids, etc. Romney was talking blah-blah establishment BS most of the time.
I know that this is 20-20 hindsight, but the GOP as most of us affectionately know as the “stupid party” is just about worn out my patience on STUPID!
It may be a stretch to blame ORCA for all of it, but it was a factor, to be sure. When you can’t GOTV on election day, you’re doing it wrong.
And we’ve got to hand it to OFA. They started this campaign the week after he was inaugurated and as much as we may hate to admit it, David Axlerod truly is a magnificent bastard.
Geez!!!!
Why cant they just go to what works old school style?
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P.P.P.P.P.P.
We can’t put our finger on it because we do not think as usurpers, we think as patriots.
Do you think that THEY don’t know how W e think?
The libs have perfected psy-ops.
Yet, we still play by the rules.
Time to play dirty, IMO
We can’t put our finger on it because we do not think as usurpers, we think as patriots.
Do you think that THEY don’t know how W e think?
The libs have perfected psy-ops.
Yet, we still play by the rules.
Time to play dirty, IMO
You are on a roll today! LOL!!!!!
I do not disagree...
Problem with Republicans is we’re not dirty fighters. Romney ran his businesses by doing a good job but that doesn’t matter in politics. It’s upside down because the money is someone else’s.
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