Jammers Vs Falsifications
Not long ago Ukrainians had to choose a person to lead them to the bright future and as always some political parties did everything possible to win, even if it was forbidden. In addition to ”ordinary” methods of falsification that were used during previous elections, 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 give his vote to another candidate. It was almost impossible to find out the voter’s choice until now. Today’s technique allowed a person to get absolute control over the voting process of another person with the help of various secret gadgets. Thus some political parties decided to place small hidden 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 mobile phones that can be used for video calls were used.
Knowing all this, some parties provided their representatives with special phone jammer to disrupt 2.4 GHz waves and thus to prevent opponents from using wireless cams. Also GSM and 3G jammers were used to disable any mobile phones at the voting cabins. In the vast majority of cases only one jammer was used. This universal jammer not only jams all these frequencies 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 territories. The demand for cell phonejammers is growing not only among ordinary people but also among various government officials and organizations. In winter 2010 jammers were used at the elections, in spring 2010 phoneblockers are supposed to be used during exams at schools. What’s next?
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