Did the secret cyber justice group "Anonymous" prevent Karl Rove from stealing the 2012 election? According to them they did. Update!

A few weeks before the election this video was posted on YouTube:

At the time I think many of us took the group's ability to affect the outcome of the election with a grain of salt, even though I think the majority of us also believed that Rove did DID indeed have a plot to steal it away from the President.

Later of course we all witnessed Karl Rove's breakdown on live TV as he slowly came to the realization that SOMETHING had gone awry.

However now Anonymous is stating for a fact that the fix was mostly definitely in, and that THEY were both the reason it did not work, AND the reason for Rove's televised tantrum.

Here is their statement in full:

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 Now I have no way of checking as to whether this group did what they said they did, but the fact that SOMETHING went wrong with Rove's ORCA program was confirmed in an article for the Atlantic about Obama's "Dream Team" of nerds:  

The billing the Republicans gave the tool confused almost everyone inside the Obama campaign. Narwhal wasn't an app for a smartphone. It was the architecture of the company's sophisticated data operation. Narwhal unified what Obama for America knew about voters, canvassers, event-goers, and phone-bankers, and it did it in real time. From the descriptions of the Romney camp's software that were available then and now, Orca was not even in the same category as Narwhal. It was like touting the iPad as a Facebook killer, or comparing a GPS device to an engine. And besides, in the scheme of a campaign, a digitized strike list is cool, but it's not, like, a gamechanger. It's just a nice thing to have. 

So, it was with more than a hint of schadenfreude that Reed's team hear(d) that Orca crashed early on election day. Later reports posted by rank-and-file volunteers describe chaos descending on the polling locations as only a fraction of the tens of thousands of volunteers organized for the effort were able to use it properly to turn out the vote.

So I will leave it to you to determine whether Anonymous is actually behind Rove's failure, or whether it was simply buried under the weight of high voter turnout for Democrats, or whether Obama's team of nerds simply outsmarted Turdblossom.

However I will say that if Anonymous is being honest, and they DID manage to sabotage this cyber attack on democracy, then I feel they need to immediately share their information with the Justice department, the Democratic party, and the American press. Because if they are right, then our elections are still incredibly vulnerable to this kind of hacking and that needs to be addressed and dealt with just as soon as possible.

Oh and Karl Rove needs to grabbed off the street and thrown into the darkest, coldest, most inhospitable jail cell in this, or any other, country, until his trial for treason. After which I expect to see his bullet riddled carcass dragged through the streets as a warning to ANYBODY who wants to impinge on the rights of America's voters to choose their leaders fairly.

Update: It looks as if Thom Hartmann is pretty convinced that Anonymous did indeed stop Karl Rove.