Pierre Jones is now the alias of Pierre Poutine, the anonymous coward who’s behind the illegal robocalls that misdirected non-Conservatives, and self-identified undecided voters, away from election polls last Spring.
According to Meier of RackNine, Jones used a Rogers IP address from Guelph during a mistake in concealing their identity. Elections Canada or the RCMP should get right on tracing whose IP that is, and if they might know Jones. It could be an open WiFi point, or proxy zombie, and be a partial dead end, but I’m inclined to think this could be a serious break in the case.
The question not answered in Ivison’s article is a big one:
Even if Jones wanted to unleash a torrent of fake polling station location phonecalls, how were they going to get the phone numbers of the correct people, to do it?
More on that tomorrow morning, as we talk about the Monty Python Black Knight.
(And I’ve already answered this, if you read back through my RoboCon posts.)
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ADDED: Poutine/Jones claimed to be completing a Commerce degree at UofO. Assuming Meier’s recollection is accurate, and the caller’s voice sounded a certain age so they’d want a believable cover ID, the caller should be about ~22 years old.
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Interesting. I had a totally different reaction. Last time when Meier claimed Pierre gave a real address and that it might be the real address of the Pierre Poutine, it didn’t make sense to me and I wondered why he would say that.
Now Meier is saying Pierre can be traced to an IP address and he only managed to make one set of calls. The last point presumably would imply the other recordings with identical messages but different polling stations went through some other similar yet to be identified company. That sounds even higher risk, using multiple companies, trying to find ones that will allow for anonymous PayPal payment. I just find it difficult to believe and it seems designed to limit the involvement of his company. So I’m not inclined to have faith in his “lead” either.
I suspect Ivison had a drink with Stephen Maher or Glen McGregor and then slunk off to the men’s room to file this column. He writes op-ed and his list of contacts is limited to Conservatives and right leaning Liberals, none of whom would have had this information.
I mean it’s definitely kind of cute that he’s pretending to be sort of concerned about democracy but I don’t buy it for a second.
The following info doesn’t mean anything, it’s just for saving anyone else the bother of looking it up if they are curious:
Prescott was looking for a new ISP prior to May ’11 canadaconservative.blogspot.com/search?q=rogers but he used Rogers. Thousands use Rogers in Guelph, so it doesn’t implicate him, it just doesn’t knock down the chances that it’s him, had he been using another ISP.