Saturday, November 10, 2012
Trouble at the Garden
No, not the Celtics. Instead, the Globe has a terrific piece on the Romney campaign’s crashing “ORCA” system on election day at the Garden:
No, not the Celtics. Instead, the Globe has a terrific piece on the Romney campaign’s crashing “ORCA” system on election day at the Garden:
(At) Boston’s TD Garden, where 800 Romney workers were staffing phones and computers in coordination with the field workers to oversee the turnout, the surge in traffic was so great that the system didn’t work for 90 minutes, causing panic as staffers frantically tried to restore service. Some campaign workers also reported that they had incorrect PINS and had not been informed that they needed certification to work at polling places.
“The Garden definitely kind of buckled under the strain,” Zac Moffatt, the campaign’s digital director, confirmed in an interview. “The system wasn’t ready for the amount of information incoming.”But don't get me wrong: I'm worried about the Celtics too.
