One time we were told to call people on a list, and it turns out everyone we called had already voted absentee. Another time a state assemblyman in a close race walked in, and everyone was calling people outside his district.
That being said, there is no excuse for the kind of widespread GOTV failure that apparently occurred this week. The world has advanced beyond paper and pencil. The Rats have mastered the new technology, but we have not.
“The Rats have mastered the new technology, but we have not.”
I don’t buy that general premise. We did not have major glitches in 2004. I have to put it on the current team and only suggest someone thought their were more brilliant than the 2004 team, rewrote everything and screwed it all up.
The 2004 process used VPN (Virtual Private Network), personal over-the-Internet-from-home, plus Email driven downloads and uploads against the same, constant-real-time updated database - making all activity whether call center run or otherwise seemless with each other. “Facebook” and “Twitter” apps would have integrated with it with ease. There was just no excuse. We have mastered it.
I have to put it on the current team and only suggest someone thought they were more brilliant than the 2004 team, rewrote everything completely and screwed it all up. Frankly, that kind of “I’m better than the last guy” mentality is NOT foreign in the IT world; and I’d guess the Dims have a 50/50 chance of rewriting their operation in some worse fashion next time.