Jammers Vs Falsifications
Once again Ukrainians had to choose a person to lead them to prosperity and yet again some political forces tried to use any possibility to gain more votes, even illegal ones . In addition to “standard” methods 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 method has serious disadvantage, voter may take money and still vote for another candidate. It was absolutely impossible to find out the voter’s choice until now. New technique allowed a person to get full control over the voting process of another person with the help of various secret tools. Thus several political forces started to place small secret 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 support video calls were used.
Knowing all this, other parties provided their representatives with special cell phone jammer to disrupt 2.4 GHz frequency and thus to stop opponents from using wireless cameras. Also GSM and 3G blockers were used to disable all 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 bands but also is extremely compact so there were no problems with discreet usage of it.
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 ordinary people but also among different government officials and organizations. In January 2010 blockers were used at the elections, in spring 2010 phonejammers are supposed to be used during exams at schools. What’s next?
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