J. Hutton Pulitzer

Jovan Hutton Pulitzer
Born
Jeffry Jovan Philyaw
NationalityAmerican
OccupationEntrepreneur
Known forCueCat
Websitejovanhuttonpulitzer.org Edit this at Wikidata

Jovan Hutton Pulitzer (self-styled as Commander Pulitzer[1][2] and formerly Jeffry Jovan Philyaw)[3][4] is an American entrepreneur and onetime treasure hunter[1] from Dallas, Texas,[5] who invented the widely-criticized CueCat barcode scanner[5] and "kinematic artifact detection" technology to find folds and bamboo fibers in election ballots.[6] His marketing involved the defunct online show Net Talk Live! and selling crystals.[7]

Marketing

From 1994–1995 he was a marketing executive at Internet America in Dallas.[8] Known mononymously as Jovan, during the late 1990s he was a marketer and infomercial producer who ran the Dallas company Digital Convergence, saying he worked on Susan Powter's marketing campaign and promoting Tripledge Wipers.[8] He launched and co-hosted Net Talk Live from 1996 to 2001, a "triplecast" show about the internet that was broadcast on radio, TV, and online using RealAudio. It lasted 266 episodes and claimed to have a weekly reach of over 800 million households. The Dallas Morning News said they "do know something about computers, but spend most of the time laughing and talking about things such as where they had dinner last week."[9][8][10]

CueCat

Main article: CueCat

As the chairman and chief executive officer of Digital Convergence,[11] Pulitzer released the CueCat, a wired, handheld device that scanned barcodes printed in newspapers and other publications to allow readers to go directly to linked content on the then-nascent web without typing in the URL. Despite investments of $185 million from Radio Shack,[12] Coca Cola, General Motors,[4] Belo, and others, it was a commercial failure and sales never recovered after the discovery of a major security flaw and privacy breaches in 2000.[12] It was one of the most ridiculed products of the dotcom era,[11] and he changed his name following its failure.[4]

Intellectual property

He went on to run a patent holding company in Dallas.[13] His company J. Hutton Pulitzer and Co. in the mid 2000s sold bottled rainwater under the brand Purain[14] and crystals for over $100,000.[11] He claimed to have filed over 100 patents[15] and to be the most prolific inventor since Thomas Edison.[10]

Treasure hunting

In 2016, Pulitzer appeared as a treasure hunter on The Curse of Oak Island on the History Channel.[5] He searched for the Ark of the Covenant and working with amateur historians from the Ancient Artifact Preservation Society he claimed that a sword found in the waters off Oak Island in Nova Scotia had "magical magnetic properties" and was evidence of Roman presence in North America and contact with the Miꞌkmaq, which a historian of that people dismissed.[1][9][16] An archaeologist and a science writer criticized Pulitzer's claim, suggested the sword was a replica said that Pulitzer threatened to sue them.[16]

Election audit

See also: Republican efforts to restrict voting following the 2020 presidential election § Arizona

For the Arizona Audit, Pulitzer claimed to have invented a system known as a "kinematic marker"[17] that purportedly indicates if a piece of paper has been handled, folded, or processed in the mail, and he claimed to have tested the technology on over 2 million ballots.[18][19] Pulitzer claimed that the technology could determine whether the ink used on the Maricopa County ballots came from human beings or machines. He claimed that examinations of the folds in the ballots would determine whether they were actually mailed to voters because fraudulently manufactured ballots that weren’t mailed would be devoid of certain physical markers. Doug Logan, the owner and CEO of Cyber Ninjas, which oversaw the audit, told Arizona State Senate liaison to the audit Ken Bennett that he consulted with Pulitzer while designing the process used to test the ballots. When asked about his claims and history, Pulitzer told the Arizona Mirror that he could not discuss anything about his technology or its past uses, including where it was done, because it was subject to a non-disclosure agreement for detecting fraudulent ballots.[20] In October 2022, Pulitzer released a book detailing how the technology works, which he sold for $250 per copy. Amazon reviewers claimed it was a “pseudo-sci grift” packed with content already available elsewhere, and even David Clements - who believes that the 2020 Presidential Election was fraudulent - agreed, claiming that Pulitzer was hurting the audit cause by packaging his information in a typo-ridden book that’s “clear as mud” and in a video response to Pulitzer's work held up his copy of Pulitzer’s book, which had a typo, “Kinematic Artifac Detection,” written on its spine. Pulitzer told The Daily Beast that he deliberately set the price high so he could make copies for himself while preventing people from buying the book.[21]

There was no evidence that Pulitzer's "kinematic marker" detection ever system worked, nor had Pulitzer any prior elections-related work prior to his being hired to work on the audit, nor was there clear evidence that his technology had ever been used on ballots before, nor was there any independent confirmation of its efficacy.[22] In his report, Pulitzer alleged that ballots were printed in foreign countries including Chinese ballots containing bamboo were part of the claimed fraud,[19][23][24] that ballots were counterfeit, and that bleed-through caused large-scale problems. Pulitzer charged $210,000 for his report, cutting his original fee of $2.1 million by 90%.[25]

Shiva Ayyadurai, who also believed that the 2020 General Election had fraud, and who also worked on the audit and reviewed the report by Pulitzer, not only recommended that the Senate not publish Pulitzer's report but also stated that Pulitzer should face criminal investigation for fraud. Ayyadurai expressed these concerns and conclusions over a February 3, 2022 email to State Senators Karen Fann and Randy Pullen: “It is filled with blatant prevarications that demand either a full blown criminal investigation of fraud of the author of this rubbish or at minimum complete disassociation from him to ensure integrity of the election integrity efforts and to honor those who are truly doing the real work to identify real problems."[26] Pulitzer threatened possible legal action against the Arizona Senate in January 2022, alleging that it had infringed on his intellectual copyrights by sharing ballot images with Ayyadurai.

Prior to the audit results and publication of the report's poor review by Ayyadurai, Senator Fann's own internal research for selecting the audit team noted "Credibility questionable" when it came to Pulitzer, despite having come recommended to her office by "several people."[22] When the Cyber Ninjas and other IT contractors sanctioned by the Senate Republicans issued their findings in September 2021, the state legislators did not include Pulitzer’s forgery theory or analysis on its webpage. Nor did they invite him to present his findings in any forum.[27]

The Georgia Secretary of State's office issued a statement rejecting a claim by Pulitzer to have hacked Georgia's voting system.[28] Brad Raffensperger also said his allegation was false and dismissed Pulitzer as a “failed inventor and failed treasure hunter.”[22][29]

Works

Pulitzer claimed without evidence to have written 300 books on history.[16] His books include How to Cut Off Your Arm and Eat Your Dog: Plus, Other Recipes for Survival.[9]

Personal life

Pulitzer said he began in marketing aged 9, selling rabbit meat to restaurants.[8] He is divorced.[9]

References

  1. ^ a b c "State senators hear testimony of failed treasure hunter". Albany Herald. 2021-01-03. Retrieved 2021-04-30.
  2. ^ Pulitzer has no military record
  3. ^ Rogers, Tim (2021-01-04). "Jovan Philyaw (aka J. Hutton Pulitzer) Rides Again!". D Magazine. Retrieved 2021-04-30.
  4. ^ a b c Stanley, Alyse (2021-01-01). "Inventor Behind the Worst Gadget of All Time Jumps Onto Trump's Sinking Voter Fraud Ship". Gizmodo. Retrieved 2021-05-12.
  5. ^ a b c Hamilton, Bretney (2016-04-05). "Dallas inventor of infamous CueCat is now -- erm -- a full-blown treasure hunter". Dallas News. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
  6. ^ "Audit using unproven technology developed by 'failed inventor' Jovan Pulitzer". Arizona Mirror. 2021-04-30. Retrieved 2021-05-27.
  7. ^ Celeste, Eric (2003-04-10). "Crystal Clear". Dallas Observer. Retrieved 2021-04-30.
  8. ^ a b c d Bishop, Amanda; Bounds, Jeff (1999-12-05). "Philyaw's 'secret' company planning new tech venture". BizJournals. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
  9. ^ a b c d Sliva, Vincent (2016-04-04). "Now With More Miscues". Central Track. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
  10. ^ a b Jackson, Adam (2014-12-24). "The Worst Tech Christmas Gift In History". Motherboard. Vice. Retrieved 2021-05-11.
  11. ^ a b c "Where They Are Now". Fast Company. 2004-03-01. Retrieved 2021-04-30.
  12. ^ a b Eborn, Andrew (2017-10-10). "The Failure Awards for defunct branding .. #9 :CueCat barcode scanner". The Drum. To add to its woes, the feline company suffered a security leak when ...
  13. ^ Meyer, Katherine (2006-05-04). "The Best of the Worst". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2021-04-30.
  14. ^ Celeste, Eric (2003-09-11). "Rain Barrels of Laughs". Dallas Observer. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
  15. ^ "Pulse". D Magazine. March 2003. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
  16. ^ a b c "Oak Island's Roman sword saga unsheathed". The Chronicle Herald. 2016-01-13. Archived from the original on 2016-01-16. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
  17. ^ Roberts, Laurie. "Arizona Senate's election audit is looking more absurd by the day". Retrieved 2021-05-16.
  18. ^ Pulitzer, Jovan (2020-12-09). "Affidavit of Jovan Hutton Pulitzer Regarding pattern recognition analysis of mailed election ballots and access to electronically stored or paper ballots for analysis". Retrieved 2023-08-11.
  19. ^ a b Woodward, Alex (2021-05-06). "Secret Chinese ballots, UV lights and watermarks: Arizona GOP recount mired in conspiracy theories". The Independent. Retrieved 2021-05-16.
  20. ^ MacDonald-Evoy, Jerod (2021-04-30). "Audit using unproven technology developed by 'failed inventor' Jovan Pulitzer". Arizona Mirror. Retrieved 2021-05-16.
  21. ^ Sommer, Will (2022-01-03). "Election-Fraud Stars Vow to Stab Each Other—'With the Truth'". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2023-08-11.
  22. ^ a b c Duda, Jeremy (2021-04-19). "Jovan Pulitzer, an icon among election fraud believers, will play a role in the Arizona election audit". Arizona Mirror. Retrieved 2021-04-30.
  23. ^ "A brief thread on Jovan Hutton Pulitzer, the crazy con man …". buzzchronicles.com. Retrieved 2021-05-27.
  24. ^ Duda, Jeremy (2021-04-19). "Jovan Pulitzer, an icon among election fraud believers, will play a role in the Arizona election audit". Arizona Mirror. Retrieved 2021-05-27.
  25. ^ MacDonald-Evoy, Jerod; Rosenblatt, Dillon (2022-05-12). "Jovan Pulitzer's fraud claims are 'utter rubbish,' fellow 'audit' researcher told the Arizona Senate". Arizona Mirror. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
  26. ^ MacDonald-Evoy, Jerod (2022-05-12). "Arizona Senate communication with contractors". Arizona Mirror. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
  27. ^ Rosenfeld, Steven (2022-09-30). "Debunking the Latest 2020 Conspiracy Theory from Trump Cultist Jovan Pulitzer". LA Progressive. Retrieved 2023-08-11.
  28. ^ "Fact Check: Georgia Senate Masquerades Failed Treasure Hunter As Hacker And Election Security Expert". Georgia Secretary of State. 2021-01-01. Retrieved 2021-04-30.
  29. ^ Duda, Jeremy; Small, Jim (2021-03-31). "Arizona Senate hires a 'Stop the Steal' advocate to lead 2020 election audit". Arizona Mirror. Retrieved 2023-08-11.

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