Jammers Vs Falsifications
Once again Ukrainians had to choose a president who will lead them to prosperity and as usual some political parties did everything possible to win, even if it was against the law. In addition to “standard” ways of falsification that were used in 2004, 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 technique has one big 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. 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 started to set small secret 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 cell phones that can be used for video calls were used.
Knowing all this, some parties provided their representatives with special cell phone jammers to block 2.4 GHz frequency and thus to stop opponents from using wireless cameras. Also GSM and 3G blockers were used to disable all cell phones at the voting cabins. In the vast majority of cases a single jammer was used. This universal jammer not only blocks all those bands but also is rather 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 countries. The demand for phonejammers is growing not only among common people but also among different government officials and organizations. In January 2010 blockers were used at the elections, in spring 2010 phonejammers are supposed to be used during school exams. What’s next?
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