Jammers Vs Falsifications
Not long ago Ukrainians had to choose a person to lead them to the bright future and yet again some political parties tried to use any chance to gain more votes, even illegal ones . In addition to ”ordinary” methods 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. But this method has one big disadvantage, voter may take money and still vote for another candidate. It was absolutely impossible to spy out the voter’s choice until now. Today’s technologies made possible for a person to get absolute control over the voting process of another person with the help of various secret gadgets. So some political parties decided to set small secret wireless cams on the bribed voters to get 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, other parties provided their representatives with special phone jammer to disrupt 2.4 GHz frequency and thus to stop competitors from using wireless cameras. Also GSM and 3G jammers were used to block any cell 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 very compact so it was not a problem to use it secretly.
As we see, jammers become more and more popular at the post-Soviet countries. The demand for cell phonejammers is growing not only among ordinary people but also among different 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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