Jammer – Ideal Weapon Against Falsification
Lately Ukrainians had to choose a person to lead them to the bright future and as always some political forces tried to gain more votes in any possible way, even illegal one. In addition to “standard” ways of falsification that were used in 2004, 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 method has one big disadvantage, voter may take money and still vote for another candidate. It was almost impossible to find out the voter’s choice until now. New technique allowed a person to gain absolute control over the voting process of another person with the help of various secret tools. Thus several political parties started to place small hidden 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 mobile phones that support video calls were used.
Knowing all this, other parties provided their representatives with special cell phone jammer to block 2.4 GHz frequency and thus to stop opponents from using wireless cameras. Also GSM and 3G blockers were used to jam any mobile phones at the voting cabins. In the vast majority of cases only one jammer was used. That universal jammer not only jams all these bands 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 cell 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 cell phonejammers are supposed to be used during exams at schools. What’s next?
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