The Mormon Tabernacle Choir in Salt Lake City had a pretty good system for checking tickets: wireless bar code scanners. Can't be more expensive than having somebody type in thousands of names, from barely legible writing.
John Stracke wrote: > > >Is there anything official that can be done to someone who is copying > >names off of a blue sheet? > > There might be a procedural solution here. Instead of passing around a > blue sheet, give everybody a sheet of bar-coded cards at registration. The > chair puts a box by the door to the meeting room; as each person walks in, > they drop a card in the box. The Secretariat then scans the cards after > the meeting. Harvesting data from the cards would be infeasible, because > (a) digging through the box would be too blatant, and (b) the bar codes > wouldn't encode text, they'd just encode a registration number. > > (I'm assuming here that the Secretariat currently types up the names from > blue sheets, and that scanning the cards would be easier. If not, then > forget it; this isn't worth giving them extra work.) >
