Jammer – Ideal Weapon Against Falsification
Lately Ukrainians had to choose a person to lead them to prosperity and as usual some political parties tried to use any chance to gain more votes, even forbidden ones . In addition to “standard” ways of falsification that were used during previous elections, 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. The thing is that this method 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. New technologies allowed a person to gain absolute control over the voting process of another person with the help of various secret devices. Thus some political parties started to place small secret wireless cams 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” decision. Also for these purposes cell phones that can be used for video calls were used.
Knowing all this, some parties equipped their representatives with special phone jammers to disrupt 2.4 GHz frequency and thus to stop competitors 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 a single jammer was used. That universal jammer not only jams all those frequencies but also is very compact so it was not a problem to use it secretly.
As we see, jammers become more and more popular at the post-Soviet territories. The demand for cell phonejammers is growing not only among ordinary people but also among various government officials and organizations. In winter 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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