Anonymous Claims It Stopped Karl Rove From Hacking The Election By Hacking ORCA

[drm604]

73. This makes no sense.

Why would a GOTV system be used to hack voting machines? What would be the purpose of linking together two systems with totally different purposes?

But what really shows this to be nonsense is the claim that Rove was going to hack all the machines.

Were they planning to rig the vote on some tabulators in Ohio, but then decided against it when it became obvious that Obama was going to win even without Ohio? Maybe. Possibly.

Were they planning to somehow rig every voting machine in the country? No. It would be next to impossible and way to risky.

Regarding ORCA: was it a clusterfuck because of Anonymous? No. It was poorly designed, poorly written, poorly tested, and the rollout was incompetent. They assumed that every volunteer had a working printer and could print out a 60 page PDF the night before the election. They used a secure website (good idea), but when people typed in http or just www.something.org it simply gave them a 404 rather than redirecting them to the secure https address.

They didn't tell the GOTV volunteers (the people who would be using ORCA) that they needed to go to a Romney headquarters and pick up an ID before they'd be allowed to enter the polling place.

It was a truckload of these kinds of design, training, and rollout errors that did in ORCA, and none of that was caused by Anonymous.