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

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155. Why is everyone focusing on ORCA?

The Wonkette article wonders if ORCA was a vote-stealing operation rather than or in addition to being a get out the vote app. The communication from someone claiming to represent Anonymous makes no such claim.

ORCA was not for election night, it was for GOTV.

10:00 AM EST - ORCA killer
8:00 PM EST - The Great Oz

The anonymous person is claiming that they installed the firewall at 8:00 PM EST, which would be when totals are starting to show up. The person had no name for this aspect of Rove's "operation", but leaves no doubt that there was another component (other than ORCA) to what Rove was up to.

I read all of the responses to this OP and many here are making the mistake of claiming it could not be true because of what ORCA was. Somehow people are missing the real claim here, not that ORCA was hacked (which in my opinion would be wrong to hack their GOTV effort, not that I know a whole lot about ORCA), but that a second action prevented Rove or other Republican operators from accessing whatever it was that they had in place to alter the vote totals before they were reported. The anonymous person even went as far as to claim the Republican operatives unsuccessfully tried 105 passwords in an attempt to get around "The Great Oz". Clearly it's not ORCA the person is talking about, it's something else which has no name, or none that we know.

I have no idea if what the person claims is true, but the claims of many of the detractors here seem off-base to me.

Thanks for the article, Wonkette, and to the OP, I hadn't heard of this.

I like that this is getting out there, true or not. It will hopefully scare the powers that be into thinking that having a hackable electoral system is not such a good idea. I hope it gets some intense scrutiny.