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Orca wasn't built by contractors, it was written in-house by Romney staffers and volunteers.

See: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/11/which-...

Orca and systems like it are also not particularly relevant to electoral outcomes, compared to all of the other things that campaigns use/build.

No kidding - ORCA should've been miles down the priority queue. That tens of thousands of election-day volunteers were wasted on it when they could've been doing more essential things is infuriating.

The Romney campaign didn't build the right thing wrong - instead, they built the completely wrong thing, which is doubly damning.

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