Jammers Vs Falsifications
Once again Ukrainians had to choose a president who will lead them to prosperity and yet again some political forces tried to use any chance to gain more votes, even forbidden ones . In addition to “standard” ways of falsification that were used in 2004, 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, there is a possibility that voter will take money and still give his vote to another candidate. It was absolutely impossible to find out the voter’s choice until now. Today’s technique made possible for a person to gain absolute control over the voting process of another person with the help of various secret tools. So several political parties started to place small secret wireless cameras on the bribed voters to receive real time video from voting cabin and so got the opportunity 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 jam 2.4 GHz frequency and thus to stop competitors from using wireless cams. Also GSM and 3G jammers were used to block all cell phones at the voting cabins. In the vast majority of cases only one jammer was used. That universal jammer not only disrupts all those 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 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 cell phoneblockers are supposed to be used during exams at schools. What’s next?
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