{"id":8271,"date":"2012-11-18T19:14:15","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T01:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8271"},"modified":"2012-11-18T19:14:15","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T01:14:15","slug":"which-consultants-built-romneys-project-orca-none-of-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8271","title":{"rendered":"Which consultants built Romney\u2019s \u201cProject Orca?\u201d None of them"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The interface for Orca was a mobile Web application connected to a set of mirrored databases of voter rolls. When a user logged in, the app would load a page with a scrollable list of all the registered voters in the precinct they were assigned to. By swiping a checkbox next to a voter&#8217;s name, they could record them as having voted; the entry was then transmitted back to Orca&#8217;s application server. A back-up call response system\u2014similar in nature to the Houdini system used by the Obama campaign in 2008 (a system which also ran into trouble)\u2014provided a way for volunteers to report possible voting irregularities into the system even if their data connectivity failed. Using information gathered through the campaign&#8217;s digital outreach and pulled from the campaign&#8217;s voter contact vendor, FLS Connect, the system was supposed to give volunteers in Boston a complete view of Romney supporters in swing states who hadn&#8217;t yet voted. It would then prompt phone calls asking supporters to vote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2012\/11\/which-consultants-built-romneys-project-orca-none-of-them\/\">Which consultants built Romney\u2019s \u201cProject Orca?\u201d None of them | Ars Technica<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The interface for Orca was a mobile Web application connected to a set of mirrored databases of voter rolls. When a user logged in, the app would load a page with a scrollable list of all the registered voters in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8271\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[284],"tags":[156,208],"class_list":["post-8271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-servers","tag-databases","tag-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8271"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8301,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8271\/revisions\/8301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}