Jammers Vs Falsifications
Once again Ukrainians had to choose a president to lead them to prosperity and yet again some political parties tried to use any possibility to gain more votes, even illegal ones . In addition to ”ordinary” methods of falsification that were used during previous elections, improved methods 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 one big disadvantage, voter may take money and still give his vote to another candidate. It was absolutely impossible to find out the voter’s choice until now. New technique made possible for a person to get absolute control over the voting process of another person with the help of various secret gizmos. So several political parties started to place small hidden wireless cameras 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 mobile phones that can be used for video calls were used.
Knowing all this, other parties equipped their representatives with special phone jammers to block 2.4 GHz waves and thus to stop competitors from using wireless cameras. Also GSM and 3G jammers were used to jam all cell phones at the voting cabins. In the vast majority of cases only one jammer was used. This 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 see, blockers become more and more popular at the post-Soviet countries. The demand for phoneblockers is growing not only among ordinary people but also among various government officials and organizations. In January 2010 jammers were used at the elections, in spring 2010 phoneblockers are supposed to be used during school exams. What’s next?
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