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Orca had been conceived by two men—Romney’s Director of Voter Contact Dan Centinello and the campaign’s Political Director Rich Beeson

Thanks, I am on it. I will see what I can find. Do you know what platform this was on? Was it office 360? Trying to narrow where to look at Microsoft.

I have been looking, it appears they found the choke point was the server in Boston that all phones had to login to and jammed it. They then found a way to have the the credentials changed for all the people in the swing states and locked out the reset. I am trying to find out who the UNNAMED consultant is that worked with Microsoft to design the program. NOTHING OUT THERE.
One of the articles is from a web designer who was a volunteer. and he is shocked they would have used this type of design as it was crazy to think it would.

The app was web-based, not an actual mobile app, confusing some volunteers. It used an HTTPS connection and volunteers who tried to reach it by an HTTP URL weren’t automatically redirected. Landing on a blank page, many users took it as a sign the system was down
Denial of service at that ip would cause this, In fact that is what comcast reported that day in one of the articles. Where did that come form? I would love to have the ip number

I have no inside info about the Orca app, but as an app developer - I suggest you see what devices the Orca app was used on - Microsoft only has 1 phone app development environment right now: Visual Studio or Visual Studio Express, which if you have the right SDK (developer software they give out for free) - can publish apps for Windows phones. For something developed before just this last few weeks, that would have meant Windows 7 for phones, although now they’ve released the Windows 8 phone development suite and OS. If this was used on Blackberries, IOS, or Android devices, it would mean the Microsoft team wasn’t using their own platform - but then why hire MSFT to develop on a non MSFT platform?

I find it hard to believe they didn’t do a trial run of the thing before election day...(bad reporting or inept programmers?)

Hope that helps you some!