Jammers Vs Falsifications
Lately Ukrainians had to choose a president to lead them to prosperity and as always some candidates tried to use any chance to gain more votes, even unauthorized ones . In addition to ”ordinary” ways 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 serious disadvantage, voter may take money and still vote for another candidate. It was almost impossible to spy out the voter’s choice until now. New equipment made possible for a person to gain absolute control over the voting process of another person with the help of various spy gadgets. Thus several political parties decided to place small hidden 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” decision. Also for these purposes mobile phones that can be used for video calls were used.
Knowing all this, other parties provided their representatives with special cell phone jammers to disrupt 2.4 GHz frequency and thus to stop competitors from using wireless cams. 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 very compact so there were no problems with discreet usage of it.
As we can see, jammers become more and more popular at the post-Soviet countries. The demand for cell phonejammers is growing not only among common people but also among different government officials and organizations. In winter 2010 blockers were used at the elections, in spring 2010 phonejammers are supposed to be used during exams at schools. What’s next?
Original story can be read at that page.