Think back to the proposal to use hand-held devices to actually DO THE CENSUS.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/projectfailures/billion-dollar-it-failure-at-census-bureau/660
So they took the Republicans for half a billion after they took Census for a billion? Ain't no thang ~ did they also take the Democrats for something?
The image here is of happy campaign workers going along up and down streets, or near precinct polling units, and their little hand held computer is communicating with ~ something ~ and that something is accessing this ginormous data base of people, addresses and party affiliation and can tell the campaign worker to go get'em, or he voted, or something.
Naive people ~ actually that's about everyone ~ will buy into that scene since they know UPS guys have a hand-held device with a scanner even, and they only need to use their thumbs ~ nothing complex there ~ and see how effective they are to get parcels where they are supposed to go.
OK, so what's a post office guy know about UPS? Here's the answer ~ we worked over the years to copy what UPS did ~ it's called a 'TRACKING SYSTEM' and it's tied into extensive use of BARCODES printed on the parcels.
I suppose something like this would work for people if you could get them to stand still for a barcode to be applied somewhere ~ maybe their forehead?
This technology really is TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE
Did Republicans lose the election because ORCA failed? Or, perhaps, they lost the election because they had a candidate who couldn't win? (mysterious drum beats in the background ~ 'ONLY THE SHADOW KNOWS")
Or maybe they lost the election because they had an election that no Republican-brand candidate could win.