[SeekAndFind]

John says the entire system crashed by 4:00 PM which means tens of thousands of potential voters never got a call to go vote. Many of those people probably voted anyway, but in an election where every single vote mattered, this kind of clusterfark should have been avoided.

[riri]

I want to know who the idiots are that need phone calls to get to the polls.

Anecdotal, but my sister lives in Florida. She said she went to early vote 4 times and the lines were so long she kept leaving and coming back. She said the oldsters in line were foaming at the mouth to get rid of this corrupt bastard.

Another anecdotal, someone (FL again, different county) showed up at my 70 year old MILs house to help her vote. She has no idea who it was, they never really identified themselves, I guess. She filled out her ballot for Romney and they left with it. Good guy or bad guy? We'll never know.

[wildandcrazyrussian]

Why would that be? My understanding is that the Orca project was simply a method to call in the voter info on people who HAD voted, so as to reduce the expense of calling everyone else to remind them to vote. So the GOTV effort should have absolutely unaffected and in the worst case just call ALL Republicans in an area lacking Orca data. I have done plenty of calls to people on election day not knowing whether to not they have voted; and if they have, they usually pleasantly thank you for calling and are even glad to know that there is a GOTV project to help out.

In fact, isn't a project like Orca psychologically backlward for just that reason?