Jammers Vs Falsifications
Recently Ukrainians had to choose a person to lead them to the bright future and yet again some candidates tried to use any chance to gain more votes, even unauthorized 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, there is a possibility that voter will take money and still vote for another candidate. It was absolutely impossible to find out the voter’s choice until now. Today’s technologies made possible for a person to gain full control over the voting process of another person with the help of various secret gadgets. Thus some political forces started to place small hidden wireless cameras on the bribed voters to receive real time video from voting cabin and so got the opportunity to check whether the voter made the “right” choice. Also for these purposes mobile phones that support video calls were used.
Knowing all this, some parties equipped their representatives with special phone jammers to disrupt 2.4 GHz frequency and thus to prevent competitors from using wireless cameras. Also GSM and 3G jammers 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 disrupts all these bands but also is extremely compact so it was not a problem to use it secretly.
As we can see, blockers become more and more popular at the post-Soviet territories. The demand for phoneblockers is growing not only among common people but also among different government officials and organizations. In winter 2010 jammers were used at the elections, in spring 2010 phonejammers are supposed to be used during school exams. What’s next?
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