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FWIW the same thing happened to Obama in 2008, at least in the key swing state of Virginia. I did some campaigning there for Obama the weekend before the electi
by GabrielF00 14y ago
FWIW the same thing happened to Obama in 2008, at least in the key swing state of Virginia. I did some campaigning there for Obama the weekend before the election and the system that managed their get-out-the-vote efforts had crashed statewide. The precinct captains were handing volunteers old printouts of where to knock on doors and then using a highlighter to mark your route on a Google Maps printout. Given the limitations it was still an effective system for organizing a lot of volunteers.
- tedsuo 14y agoYeah, strike lists are The Way It Has Been Done for over a century, it works pretty well. What amazes me about this story is not that the software crashed, but that they did not have precinct captains and strike lists at the ready to step in. And that they were only rolling out their GOTV operation on the day of the election, and not sooner? Pretty bizarre.