Jammers Vs Falsifications
Not long ago Ukrainians had to choose a president to lead them to prosperity and as usual some political parties tried to gain more votes in any possible way, even illegal one. In addition to “standard” methods of falsification that were used in 2004, improved ways of interfering into voting process took place.
Everyone knows that the most widely spread method of falsification at any elections is bribing of voters. But this method has serious disadvantage, voter may take money and still give his vote to another candidate. It was absolutely impossible to find out the voter’s choice until now. Today’s equipment made possible for a person to gain full control over the voting process of another person with the help of various secret gizmos. So several political parties started to set small secret wireless cameras on the bribed voters to get 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 can be used for video calls were used.
Knowing all this, other parties equipped their representatives with special cell phone jammer to disrupt 2.4 GHz frequency and thus to stop competitors from using wireless cams. Also GSM and 3G jammers were used to block any cell phones at the voting cabins. In the vast majority of cases a single jammer was used. This universal jammer not only disrupts all these frequencies but also is very compact so it was not a problem to use it secretly.
As we see, blockers become more and more popular at the post-Soviet countries. The demand for cell phoneblockers is growing not only among ordinary people but also among various government officials and organizations. In January 2010 blockers were used at the elections, in spring 2010 cell phonejammers are supposed to be used during exams at schools. What’s next?
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