Classic Crap Gadget : CueCat Used by Cyber Ninjas to Re-Count Maricopa County Paper Ballots

Looks like the same ridiculous replay of what happened in Georgia

  

Trump’s fight to overthrow election now falls to the guy who invented the :CueCat

Fittingly, the CueCat is widely regarded as one of the worst gadgets ever made

By T.C. Sottek Dec 31, 2020, 12:00pm EST

"In a hopeless attempt to overthrow or cast suspicion on an American election, a ridiculous cast of characters has heeded outgoing President Donald Trump’s call to misadventure — including, now, the inventor of one of the worst gadgets of all time. His name is Jovan Hutton Pulitzer, and yesterday he gave a poor imitation of a TED talk before the Georgia state senate, claiming that he has the ability to prove whether ballots from the 2020 election were real or fake. He introduced himself to a subcommittee of state senators as an “inventor and pattern recognition expert,” just before implying that he’s a titan even bigger than Apple and Google combined. “I’m on approximately about 12 billion devices globally,” he said.

We’ll definitely grant that Pulitzer does have some credentials in the world of technology.

> He’s responsible for the CueCat: a cat-shaped barcode scanner that is widely regarded as one of the worst gadgets ever made.

> In a 2000 Wall Street Journal review, renowned technology journalist Walt Mossberg wrote that the CueCat was “unnatural and ridiculous.”

> Rob Beschizza of BoingBoing calls it “one of the classic crap gadgets.”

> And TIME named it one of “the 50 worst inventions.”

. . .Anyway, Pulitzer now appears to be trying to cash in on Trump’s election grift before the lights go out. (Thanks to Christina Warren for putting us on the case with this Twitter thread.) The day before Pulitzer testified in Georgia, he posted a video on Twitter talking about Chinese inks, paper fibers, and “fake squiggles,” making sure to tag anyone on Fox News who might bite on insinuations of foreign election interference. (While he wasn’t tagged, Fox News’s Lou Dobbs fell for it.)

#ExecutiveOrderScan #42USC1974 #NoFoldNotLegalVotea #KinematicArtifacts #ScanTheBallots #JovanHuttonPulitzer @realDonaldTrump @GenFlynn @LLinWood @SidneyPowell1 @KanekoaTheGreat @SecretWeaponUSA @CarissaKeshel @TuckerCarlson @gatewaypundit @seanhannity pic.twitter.com/YcpNRs8vEJ

— JovanHuttonPulitzer ™ #JovanHuttonPulitzer (@JovanHPulitzer) December 29, 2020

So, will the 2020 election be overturned by the guy who made the CueCat? It seems unlikely. . .

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CueCat Inventor Now Donald Trump’s Last Election Hope.

Pete FreedmanJanuary 4, 2021

Dallas Inventor (And Noted Treasure Hunter) Jovan Hutton Pulitzer Says He Can Prove Whether Various Votes Cast In Georgia Were Fake.

Back in 2016, we caught up with happenings of the noted Dallasite known as Jovan Hutton Pulitzer (formerly known as J. Jovan Philyaw) after having noticed that the inventor of the CueCat was at that time spending his days somehow working as a treasure hunter on The History Channel’s The Curse of Oak Island.

(We also noted how he owns a massive collection of crystals that has been amassed from “Russia to China and all points around the world,” and that he also released the literary masterpiece How to Cut Off Your Arm and Eat Your Dog: Plus, Other Recipes for Survival, but that’s neither here nor there.)

 

So, hey, what’s he up to now?

Well, you’ll never believe it:

He is engaging in the media hype that surrounds Donald Trump.

Since last week, he’s been encamped in Georgia, arguing that ballots — and the voting machines that record them — can be subject to detectable nefarious activities that may have swayed the presidential election, despite other decisions to the contrary.

. . .Pulitzer believes there was ample opportunity for international bad actors to commit fraud and submit counterfeit ballots that could have factored into the election’s outcome.

He also believes he can prove as much if officials will just let him inspect each and every individual ballot cast in Georgia.

He says he has the technology — “kinematic artifact detection,” he calls it — to inspect as many as 500,000 ballots every few hours, and thus the ability to identify thousands of counterfeit Georgia ballots by looking for the tale-tell signs of “kinematic artifacts,” which could show whether votes were cast on paper that came from China, were filled out by robots or were never folded properly for mail-in purposes.

Better yet (and even though he claims he, along with others in Georgia who are looking to uncover nefarious voting activity, is under attack for the effort),

Pulitzer is offering to perform these tasks for free.

Will Pulitzer’s most recent treasure hunt prove fruitful — or even allowed? That’s still to be determined, we suppose.

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Lastly this report from AZ Mirror

Audit using unproven technology developed by ‘failed inventor’ Jovan Pulitzer

Arizona Mirror | 2021-04-30T08:45:54+00:00

"Policies and procedures recently released by the Florida based firm auditing Maricopa County’s election along with observations of the auditing process reveal that auditors are scouring the 2.1 million ballots for “counterfeits” by using an unproven process created by the man who developed one of the “worst inventions” ever. 

That technology was developed by Jovan Pulitzer, a favorite of election fraud conspiracy theorists, who claims to have invented technology that can detect fraudulent ballots by examining the folds in the paper and the markings in various elections. When he asserted that Joe Biden’s win in Georgia last year was marred by fraud that only he could detect, Georgia’s Republican secretary of state derided him as a “failed inventor and a failed treasure hunter.” 

Pulitzer is already known to have a role in the Senate’s audit, though it was unknown in entirely what capacity. 

Volunteers at the Senate’s audit appear to be using Pulitzer’s technology on Maricopa County ballots, placing ballots under a device that uploads close-up images of the voter’s markings made to a laptop. 

Policies made public Thursday make clear what the auditors are doing.

“The purpose of this process it (sic) to collect information about the ballot paper, ballot ink and selection marks on the physical ballot during the hand recount process,” reads policies and procedures published by Wake TSI in a section titled “Paper Examination Process.” 

Volunteers at the Senate’s audit appear to be using Pulitzer’s technology on Maricopa County ballots, placing ballots under a device that uploads close-up images of the voter’s markings made to a laptop.