Jammer – Ideal Weapon Against Falsification
Lately Ukrainians had to choose a person to lead them to the bright future and yet again some candidates tried to gain more votes in any possible way, even illegal one. In addition to ”ordinary” methods of falsification that were used during previous elections, 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 technique has serious disadvantage, voter may take money and still give his vote to another candidate. It was absolutely impossible to spy out the voter’s choice until now. New equipment allowed a person to get full control over the voting process of another person with the help of various spy tools. So some political forces decided to place small secret wireless cameras 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 cell phones that can be used for video calls were used.
Knowing all this, other parties equipped their representatives with special cell phone jammer to jam 2.4 GHz frequency and thus to prevent opponents from using wireless cameras. Also GSM and 3G blockers were used to disable all mobile phones at the voting cabins. In the vast majority of cases a single jammer was used. That universal jammer not only blocks all these frequencies but also is rather compact so it was not a problem to use it secretly.
As we 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 various government officials and organizations. In winter 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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