Jammer – Ideal Weapon Against Falsification
Not long ago Ukrainians had to choose a president to lead them to the bright future and as always some candidates tried to use any chance to gain more votes, even forbidden ones . In addition to “standard” methods of falsification that were used during previous elections, improved ways 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. The thing is that 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 made possible for a person to gain full control over the voting process of another person with the help of various secret gizmos. Thus some political forces decided 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 mobile phones that can be used for video calls were used.
Knowing all this, other parties equipped 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 disable all mobile phones at the voting cabins. In the vast majority of cases a single jammer was used. This universal jammer not only jams all those bands but also is extremely 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 territories. The demand for phoneblockers is growing not only among common people but also among various government officials and organizations. In winter 2010 jammers were used at the elections, in spring 2010 cell phoneblockers are supposed to be used during school exams. What’s next?
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