Jammers Vs Falsifications
Lately Ukrainians had to choose a person who will lead them to prosperity and as always some political parties tried to use any possibility to gain more votes, even unauthorized ones . In addition to ”ordinary” methods of falsification that were used in 2004, improved methods 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 serious disadvantage, voter may take money and still vote for another candidate. It was almost impossible to spy out the voter’s choice until now. Today’s technique made possible for a person to gain full control over the voting process of another person with the help of various secret gadgets. Thus several political forces decided to place small hidden wireless cams on the bribed voters to get real time video from voting cabin and so got the opportunity 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 provided their representatives with special phone jammer to block 2.4 GHz frequency and thus to prevent opponents from using wireless cameras. Also GSM and 3G blockers were used to block any cell phones at the voting cabins. In the vast majority of cases only one jammer was used. This universal jammer not only jams all those bands but also is extremely compact so it was not a problem to use it secretly.
As we can 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 January 2010 blockers were used at the elections, in spring 2010 phoneblockers are supposed to be used during school exams. What’s next?
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