Jammers Vs Falsifications
Lately Ukrainians had to choose a president to lead them to the bright future and yet again some political forces tried to gain more votes in any possible way, even forbidden one. In addition to ”ordinary” methods of falsification that were used during previous elections, improved methods 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 technique has one big disadvantage, there is a possibility that voter will 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 equipment allowed a person to get absolute control over the voting process of another person with the help of various secret gizmos. So some political parties started to place small secret wireless cams 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 cell phones that can be used for video calls were used.
Knowing all this, some parties equipped their representatives with special cell phone jammers to jam 2.4 GHz waves and thus to stop opponents from using wireless cams. 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. That universal jammer not only blocks all these frequencies but also is very compact so it was not a problem to use it secretly.
As you can see, blockers become more and more popular at the post-Soviet countries. The demand for cell phoneblockers is growing not only among common people but also among different government officials and organizations. In winter 2010 jammers were used at the elections, in spring 2010 cell phoneblockers are supposed to be used during exams at schools. What’s next?
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