The system crashing was really irrelevant since no one could use it anyhow, as the credentials, instructions, signons, etc were all delayed/screwed up.
Basically you had the 30,000+ of the most inspired volunteers (set up in 11 states) flying blind on election day.
Instead of the tem making calls or getting people to the polls they were isolated and left hanging.(Almost like it was sabotaged).
We lost FL, CO, VA, OH by about 100,000 votes each.
I early voted in Ohio, but that didn’t stop the 8 phone callers that I got on election day from phoning me. In Ohio, we were bombarded constantly, every day, for several months, by telephone, by mail, by TV & radio ads. Constant.
I wonder now if there were some people who didn’t vote because they felt harassed by those urging them to go vote. I have been in Ohio since 1989, so this is the sixth presidential election while living here. It has gotten progressively worse each time, and this year it was beyond the pale (like 2004 & 2008 weren’t bad enough)!
I can’t wait to move to a non-swing state. Plans and preparation are underway to be outta here before the next election. The off elections are bad enough, but the presidential ones are unbearable!
One guy called Rush yesterday with the excuse, "Romney wasn't conservative enough and wouldn't take drastic enough measures, so I sat out." Really? So if you have a cancer med that is only 70% effective, you won't take it?
I had the Romney-Ryan app on my phone and I got a message to get out and vote....Wednesday morning.
I had a project ORCA guy in my polling place. I was a plain ole poll watcher. It was hard to figure how they were going to get names of voters when they checked in and of course he couldn’t. When the poll watching provision of FL statute says that we must be “allow close enough to reasonably do our jobs”, the architects of this program should have seen a problem with foundation...getting the names. SOE’s in dem counties put poll watchers in the corner. As long as dem and rep are treated alike, we have no grounds to complain.
I was as least able to use the ORCA volunteer to help me as a second set of eyes, but he had little training in what you are and are not allowed to do in the polling place. I would not be shocked to find out that the fair number of ORCA people were ejected in dem areas.