Jammer – Ideal Weapon Against Falsification
Lately Ukrainians had to choose a president who will lead them to prosperity and as usual some political parties tried to use any possibility to gain more votes, even unlawful ones . In addition to “standard” methods 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, voter may take money and still give his vote to another candidate. It was almost impossible to find out the voter’s choice until now. Today’s equipment allowed 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” choice. Also for these purposes cell phones that support video calls were used.
Knowing all this, some parties provided their representatives with special phone jammer to block 2.4 GHz frequency and thus to prevent opponents from using wireless cams. Also GSM and 3G blockers were used to disable any mobile phones at the voting cabins. In the vast majority of cases a single jammer was used. That universal jammer not only blocks all those bands but also is highly compact so it was not a problem to use it secretly.
As you can see, jammers become more and more popular at the post-Soviet countries. The demand for cell phoneblockers is growing not only among common 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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