I was one of the 30000 volunteers - one very dissatisfied with the operation. I did receive the voter list and credentials well in time, but was never able to log in from my phone. Never worked. There was another volunteer at my voting location, he was able to get through for a very brief period. Absolute disaster in operation - I called and did get through to headquarters, only to be told it was down and would be up in a few minutes - then resetting my password, then my Logon ID and password - never willing to implement any of the backup procedures they had established. 30000 volunteers - I would really like a report on the result but haven’t seen one. How much information was actually gathered on election day - about 20 names made it through from my voting location in a timely manner - out of almost 1600 that voted, leaving several hundred that could have been contacted. We gathered the information by hand on our printouts but had no way to effectively give the information to them - even though I offered multiple ways to effectively give it to them, either by marked up email or by phone.
Romney’s team really blew this one. Big time. I know they were worried about being hacked, and maybe they were - they should let us know. I spent 13 hours straight dedicated to trying to make this work - 30000 people that were vetted (they checked all volunteers to make sure they didn’t have telltale signs of being pro-Obama - checking social media, etc...)and were enthusiastic to help make a difference - and instead of truly organizing to the local level where things could have been effective - they wasted our time and lost what should have been won.
It’s obvious the Democrats cheated - the high (100% in some cases) voter turnout is absolutely unbelievable - but even if cleaned up Obama probably still won a very, very slim majority due to some conservatives unwillingness to support a non-perfect candidate. When all the votes are actually in, the analysis seems to support he will have had more votes than McCain - while Obama’s numbers collapsed from 4 years ago. If Project Orca had actually worked, Romney should have won by a large margin.
Sorry to vent - I’m just p****d that Centinella did not get this thing field tested - a dry run that would have given them time to fix the flaws. In retrospect, at least in Ohio where voter lists are updated at 11am and 4pm, the Party needs to work a deal with the state to just get a download of the information - even if they pay for it. Would be well worth it, would have accomplished the goal for knowledge and freed up 30000 volunteers to actually get the vote out.