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-| name               = J Hutton Pulitzer
-| birthname          = Jeffry Jovan Philyaw
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-| nationality        = American
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-| occupation         = Entrepreneur
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-| known_for          = [[CueCat]], [[Kinematic Artifact Detection (fraud)]]
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-'''Jovan Hutton Pulitzer''' (self-styled as Commander Pulitzer<ref name="albany"/><ref>Pulitzer has no military record</ref> and formerly '''Jeffry Jovan Philyaw''')<ref>{{Cite news |date=2021-01-04 |title=Jovan Philyaw (aka J. Hutton Pulitzer) Rides Again! |language=en |url=http://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/2021/01/jovan-philyaw-aka-j-hutton-pulitzer-rides-again/ |work=D Magazine |last=Rogers|first=Tim|access-date=2021-04-30}}</ref><ref name="gizmodo">{{cite news|url=https://gizmodo.com/the-inventor-of-the-worst-gadget-ever-made-jumps-onto-t-1845975463|title=Inventor Behind the Worst Gadget of All Time Jumps Onto Trump's Sinking Voter Fraud Ship|first=Alyse|last=Stanley|work=Gizmodo|date=2021-01-01|accessdate=2021-05-12}}</ref> is a self-styled American entrepreneur and former treasure hunter<ref name="albany">{{Cite news |title=State senators hear testimony of failed treasure hunter |language=en |url=https://www.albanyherald.com/news/state-senators-hear-testimony-of-failed-treasure-hunter/article_4f4d983a-4d06-11eb-aa34-fbf12beb75c3.html|work=Albany Herald |date=2021-01-03|access-date=2021-04-30}}</ref> from [[Dallas]], Texas,<ref name ="dallasnews">{{cite news|url=https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-entertainment/2016/04/05/dallas-inventor-of-infamous-cuecat-is-now-erm-a-full-blown-treasure-hunter/|title=Dallas inventor of infamous CueCat is now -- erm -- a full-blown treasure hunter|work=Dallas News |last=Hamilton|first=Bretney|date=2016-04-05|accessdate=2021-05-10}}</ref> known for inventing the widely-criticized [[CueCat]] barcode scanner<ref name ="dallasnews" /> and so-called "kinematic artifact detection" technology to find folds and bamboo fibers in election ballots.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-04-30|title=Audit using unproven technology developed by 'failed inventor' Jovan Pulitzer|url=https://www.azmirror.com/2021/04/30/audit-using-unproven-technology-developed-by-failed-inventor-jovan-pulitzer/|access-date=2021-05-27|website=Arizona Mirror|language=en-US}}</ref>  His marketing work includes the online show ''Net Talk Live!'' and selling [[crystal healing|crystals]].<ref name="dallas-observer">{{Cite news |last=Celeste |first=Eric |date=2003-04-10 |title=Crystal Clear |url=https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/crystal-clear-6399274 |work=Dallas Observer|access-date=2021-04-30}}</ref>
-==Marketing==
-From 1994-5 he was a marketing executive at [[Internet America]] in Dallas.<ref name="bizjournals"/> 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.<ref name="bizjournals"/> 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."<ref name="centraltrack">{{cite news|url=https://www.centraltrack.com/Culture/8843/Now-With-More-Miscues/Turns-Out-The-Dallas-Inventor-Of-The-CueCat-Is-More-Insane-Than-That-Notorious-Device-Itself|title=Now With More Miscues|work=Central Track|date=2016-04-04|accessdate=2021-05-10|last=Sliva|first=Vincent}}</ref><ref name="bizjournals">{{cite news|url=https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/stories/1999/12/06/story3.html|title=Philyaw's `secret' company planning new tech venture|date=1999-12-05|accessdate=2021-05-10|work=BizJournals|first1=Amanda |last1=Bishop|first2=Jeff|last2=Bounds}}</ref><ref name="vice">{{cite news|url=https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/pgamym/the-worst-tech-christmas-gift-in-history|title=The Worst Tech Christmas Gift In History|work=Motherboard|publisher=Vice|first=Adam|last=Jackson|date=2014-12-24|accessdate=2021-05-11}}</ref>
-==CueCat==
-{{Main|CueCat}}
-As the chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Digital Convergence,<ref name="fast"/> 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]],<ref name=DrumCat/> Coca Cola, General Motors,<ref name=gizmodo/> 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.<ref name=DrumCat>{{cite news|work=The Drum |url=https://www.thedrum.com/news/2017/10/10/the-failure-awards-defunct-branding-9-cuecat-barcode-scanner|title=The Failure Awards for defunct branding .. #9 :CueCat barcode scanner |quote=To add to its woes, the feline company suffered a security leak when ...|date= 2017-10-10|last=Eborn|first=Andrew}}</ref> It was one of the most ridiculed products of the dotcom era,<ref name="fast">{{Cite news |work=Fast Company |date=2004-03-01 |title=Where They Are Now |language=en-US |url=https://www.fastcompany.com/48220/where-they-are-now |access-date=2021-04-30}}</ref> and he changed his name following its failure.<ref name="gizmodo"/>
-==Intellectual property==
-He went on to run a [[patent troll|patent holding company]] in Dallas.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Meyer |first=Katherine |date=2006-05-04 |title=The Best of the Worst |language=en-US |work=Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB114424637699117715 |access-date=2021-04-30 |issn=0099-9660}}</ref> His company J. Hutton Pulitzer and Co. in the mid 2000s sold bottled rainwater under the brand Purain<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/rain-barrels-of-laughs-6399192|title=Rain Barrels of Laughs|first=Eric|last=Celeste|date=2003-09-11|accessdate=2021-05-10|work=Dallas Observer}}</ref> and crystals for over $100,000.<ref name="fast"/> He claims to have filed over 100 patents<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2003/march/pulse/|title=Pulse|date=March 2003|accessdate=2021-05-10|work=D Magazine}}</ref> and to be the most prolific inventor since Thomas Edison.<ref name="vice" />
-==Treasure hunting==
-In 2016, Pulitzer appeared as a treasure hunter on ''[[The Curse of Oak Island]]'' on the History Channel.<ref name ="dallasnews"/> 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.<ref name="albany"/><ref name="centraltrack"/><ref name="chronicleherald">{{cite news|url=https://www.thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/1333135-oak-island’s-roman-sword-saga-unsheathed|title=Oak Island’s Roman sword saga unsheathed|work=The Chronicle Herald|date=2016-01-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160116172730/https:/www.thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/1333135-oak-island%E2%80%99s-roman-sword-saga-unsheathed|archive-date=2016-01-16|accessdate=2021-05-10}}</ref> An archaeologist and a science writer who criticized Pulitzer's claim and suggested the sword was a replica say he threatened to sue them.<ref name="chronicleherald"/>
-==Election audit==
-{{See also|Republican efforts to restrict voting following the 2020 presidential election#Arizona}}
-Pulitzer claims to have invented a system for detecting fraudulent ballots, which is being used by right-wing conspiracists and [[Republican reactions to Donald Trump's claims of 2020 election fraud#Timeline|Big Lie]] proponent<ref name="Indie-Chinese">{{Cite news |date=2021-05-06 |title=Secret Chinese ballots, UV lights and watermarks: Arizona GOP recount mired in conspiracy theories |language=en |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/arizona-voter-fraud-uv-lights-china-b1843219.html |work=The Independent |last=Woodward |first=Alex |access-date=2021-05-16}}</ref> Doug Logan<ref>{{Cite news |date=2021-05-12 |title=Arizona recount: Why Republicans are still tallying votes |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57089359 |last=Zurcher |first=Anthony |access-date=2021-05-16}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Wingett Sanchez |first1=Yvonne |last2=Hansen |first2=Ronald J |title=Arizona Republicans worry about consequences from election audit: 'This is turning into a mockery' |url=https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2021/05/09/arizona-republicans-worry-about-consequences-from-election-audit/4993888001/?gnt-cfr=1 |access-date=16 May 2021 |work=azcentral |publisher=Gannett Co. |date=9 May 2021}}</ref> in the partisan<ref>{{Cite news |date=2021-05-10 |title=Inside Arizona's election audit, GOP fraud fantasies live on |url=https://apnews.com/article/arizona-election-recount-b38a9205c306796f914d62bbad601587 |access-date=2021-05-17}}</ref> Republican "audit"<ref>{{Cite news |last=Montini |first=E. J. |title=Yes, a guy from the insurrection is handling your ballot. Thank the Arizona GOP for that |language=en-US |url=https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2021/05/03/tony-kern-handles-your-ballot-arizona-election-audit-sham/4918186001/ |access-date=2021-05-16}}</ref> of ballots in [[Arizona]], intended to prove the claim that the [[2020 United States Presidential election]] result was fraudulent.<ref name="azmirror">{{Cite news |last=Duda |first=Jeremy |work=Arizona Mirror |date=2021-04-19 |title=Jovan Pulitzer, an icon among election fraud believers, will play a role in the Arizona election audit |language=en-US |url=https://www.azmirror.com/2021/04/19/jovan-pulitzer-an-icon-among-election-fraud-believers-will-play-a-role-in-the-arizona-election-audit/ |access-date=2021-04-30}}</ref> There is no evidence that fraudulent ballots were cast or that Pulitzer's "kinematic marker"<ref>{{Cite news |last=Roberts |first=Laurie |title=Arizona Senate's election audit is looking more absurd by the day |language=en-US |url=https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2021/03/23/arizona-senate-election-audit-looks-more-absurd-day/6970122002/ |access-date=2021-05-16}}</ref> detection system works.<ref name="azmirror" /> The [[Georgia Secretary of State]]'s office issued a statement rejecting a claim by Pulitzer to have hacked Georgia's voting system.<ref name="ga-sos">{{Cite web |title=Fact Check: Georgia Senate Masquerades Failed Treasure Hunter As Hacker And Election Security Expert |url=https://sos.ga.gov/index.php/elections/fact_check_georgia_senate_masquerades_failed_treasure_hunter_as_hacker_and_election_security_expert |date=2021-01-01|access-date=2021-04-30 |work=Georgia Secretary of State}}</ref> Pulitzer is said to be the originator of the claim that Chinese ballots with paper containing bamboo are part of the claimed fraud.<ref name="Indie-Chinese" /><ref>{{Cite web|last=Chronicles|first=Buzz|title=A brief thread on Jovan Hutton Pulitzer, the crazy con man …|url=https://buzzchronicles.com/b/politics/5279/|access-date=2021-05-27|website=buzzchronicles.com|language=en}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite web|last=Duda|first=Jeremy|last2=April 19|first2=Arizona Mirror|last3=2021|date=2021-04-19|title=Jovan Pulitzer, an icon among election fraud believers, will play a role in the Arizona election audit|url=https://www.azmirror.com/2021/04/19/jovan-pulitzer-an-icon-among-election-fraud-believers-will-play-a-role-in-the-arizona-election-audit/|access-date=2021-05-27|website=Arizona Mirror|language=en-US}}</ref>
-==Works==
-Pulitzer claims to have written 300 books on history.<ref name="chronicleherald"/> His books include ''How to Cut Off Your Arm and Eat Your Dog: Plus, Other Recipes for Survival''.<ref name=centraltrack/>
-==Personal life==
-Pulitzer says he began in marketing aged 9, selling rabbit meat to restaurants.<ref name="bizjournals"/> He is divorced.<ref name=centraltrack/>
-==References==
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-==External links==
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-* {{Official website|https://jovanhuttonpulitzer.org/}}
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