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.
Hacked!
The system crashing was really irrelevant since no one could use it anyhow, as the credentials, instructions, signons, etc were all delayed/screwed up.
Basically you had the 30,000+ of the most inspired volunteers (set up in 11 states) flying blind on election day.
Instead of the tem making calls or getting people to the polls they were isolated and left hanging.(Almost like it was sabotaged).
We lost FL, CO, VA, OH by about 100,000 votes each.
I could be wrong, but didn’t Rove handle that for W? He is worthless as a pundit, but if he took care of GOTV efforts, why not get him back. Unless this is his mess too.
The GOP also needs a strategy to deal with voter fraud. I know secretaries of state handle voter rolls, but the governors should put as much pressure as possible. A rat governor would do it.
Excuses, excuses. This election was NOT about not being able to make last minute phone calls. The Dem get-out-the-vote effort won the election. It has been geared up and working hard for months.
The Dems sent buses with volunteers that knocked on doors and said, “Come on, let us give you a ride to vote. We will have you back home in 20 minutes.” I did not see one GOP bus pull up to the polling place with voters. Not one.
I was door-knocking off of these lists on Election Day in Hamilton County. I walked about five miles of sidewalks.
If the local coordinator had the sense to print them off THE NIGHT BEFORE, it worked just fine.
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