Wasn't sure whether to believe the Anonymous/Rove story,until the reaction telling us to shut up @it

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213. Please go read about what ORCA actually was. It wasn't anything fancy at all.

It was a Get Out the Vote list and nothing more. It was just a simple database of potential voters, tracking which ones had voted and which ones had not. The campaign attempted to provide access to that data via the web and the servers they housed it on weren't load balanced properly to handle a lot of traffic. And its also possible there was some sort of DOS attack against those servers to overload them and thus making it inaccessible to a lot of people. Regardless of any of that, theres no connection at all between that and these other completely separate systems that are used to tabulate votes. ORCA had NOTHING to do with voting, vote tabulation or anything related to that purpose at all. I could reconstruct exactly what ORCA was myself by creating a database, populating it with voter lists and writing a simple web application to allow people to read it and mark off which people had been confirmed as having voted. Thats all there was to it.