Jammers Vs Falsifications
Not long ago Ukrainians had to choose a president who will lead them to the bright future and as always some political parties tried to use any chance to gain more votes, even unauthorized ones . In addition to ”ordinary” ways of falsification that were used during previous elections, improved methods 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 technique has serious disadvantage, there is a possibility that voter will take money and still vote for another candidate. It was absolutely impossible to spy out the voter’s choice until now. New technologies allowed a person to gain absolute control over the voting process of another person with the help of various spy devices. Thus some political parties decided to set 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, some parties provided their representatives with special cell phone jammer to block 2.4 GHz frequency and thus to stop competitors from using wireless cameras. Also GSM and 3G jammers were used to disable any cell phones at the voting cabins. In the vast majority of cases only one jammer was used. That universal jammer not only disrupts all those frequencies but also is rather compact so there were no problems with discreet usage of it.
As we see, jammers become more and more popular at the post-Soviet territories. The demand for phoneblockers 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 phoneblockers are supposed to be used during exams at schools. What’s next?
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