Ok, it's time for me to tell you what happened with Jovan a few months ago and why he threatened to sue me for a half million dollars.
Let me go back to 2021, when some counties got ballot images and nobody knew what to do with them. I developed a website onto which I could load these images, and then volunteers could record the votes on these ballots. It's a pretty good system, which lets at least 2 different people score each ballot, and then additional people saw it if the 1st 2 didn't agree.
The idea was, let's see if the counts of the ballot images match the official results.
I was instantly unsuccessful at getting any kind of viral traction... my initial estimate is that I would need at least 1,000 volunteers from across the country, and I didn't think that should be a problem given the millions and millions who were angry about the 2020 election. I never got more than a few hundred, but those volunteers worked their butts off, and we completed a few smallish counties. Unsurprisingly, the numbers seldom exactly match, but they turned out to be close (this is one of the things that caused my concern about them altering ballot images). The system I wrote is called "Polaris Recount".
In Harding County, NM, we found evidence that a couple of blank ballots and undervotes were counted as votes.
In New jersey, we found irregularities in how the ballots within the same county were printed (which has yet to be explained).
So we did the best we could with what we had. This spring, a prominent candidate got the opportunity to photograph some of the actual ballots from a county. They contacted me to see if we could run these images through Polaris. The number of ballot images were a little bigger than we had attempted before, but we thought we could get some extra volunteers. (It's actually still going on). I am not giving details because the candidate is an extremely nice person, and I don't want to get them involved in this, as it's already been stressful enough).
After we started the recounting of these images, Jovan contacted the candidate and said that Polaris (a crowd sourced system to recount images) infringed upon his Kinematic Artifact patent (which allegedly deals with examining paper ballots). He said he had people "inside Polaris". To their credit, the candidate recognized it as ridiculous, but it cast a pall over the whole project and hurt the effort to get more volunteers.
I did contact a patent attorney, who was so amused by the lawfare attempt that he didn't even charge me for the consult. So I did what is always the best way to deal with narcissists, I ignored Jovan. I didn't want to cause more distraction to our movement.
So those of you wondering why I have no interest in engaging Jovan on a platform where he controls the microphone, you have part (only part) of your answer.
Jovan, who speaks out against lawfare being used against us, threatened to shut me down with a $500,000 lawsuit.
My advice? Ignore him and keep working to win this election over the next couple of weeks. That's what I plan to do.
