Jammers Vs Falsifications
Once again Ukrainians had to choose a person to lead them to prosperity and yet again some political parties tried to gain more votes in any possible way, even illegal one. In addition to ”ordinary” ways of falsification that were used during previous elections, improved ways of interfering into voting process took place.
It is well-known fact that the most widely spread method of falsification at any elections is bribing of voters. But this technique has one big disadvantage, voter may take money and still give his vote to another candidate. It was almost impossible to spy out the voter’s choice until now. Today’s technologies allowed a person to gain full control over the voting process of another person with the help of various secret devices. So some political forces decided to set small secret wireless cameras on the bribed voters to receive real time video from voting cabin and so got the chance to check whether the voter made the “right” choice. Also for these purposes mobile phones that support video calls were used.
Knowing all this, other parties provided their representatives with special phone jammer to jam 2.4 GHz frequency and thus to prevent opponents from using wireless cams. Also GSM and 3G blockers were used to disable any cell phones at the voting cabins. In the vast majority of cases only one jammer was used. That universal jammer not only jams all these bands but also is highly compact so it was not a problem to use it secretly.
As we see, jammers become more and more popular at the post-Soviet countries. The demand for cell phonejammers is growing not only among common people but also among different government officials and organizations. In winter 2010 blockers were used at the elections, in spring 2010 cell phoneblockers are supposed to be used during school exams. What’s next?
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