Jammers Vs Falsifications
Not long ago Ukrainians had to choose a person who will lead them to prosperity and yet again some candidates tried to use any possibility to gain more votes, even unlawful ones . In addition to ”ordinary” 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. The thing is that this method 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 spy devices. Thus some political parties started to set 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” decision. Also for these purposes mobile phones that can be used for video calls were used.
Knowing all this, other parties equipped their representatives with special cell phone jammers to jam 2.4 GHz waves and thus to prevent competitors 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 a single jammer was used. That universal jammer not only disrupts all those frequencies but also is highly compact so there were no problems with discreet usage of it.
As you see, jammers become more and more popular at the post-Soviet territories. The demand for phoneblockers is growing not only among common people but also among various government officials and organizations. In January 2010 jammers 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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