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Today's digital entry experience is far from frictionless. Might as well add a scan of the PDF417 barcode on the back of the latest state ID cards.

I just went to a MLB game yesterday, and the digital process was:

    - Open ticket app
    - scan ticket 1
    - scan ticket 2

I imagine this could have been:

    - Open ticket app
    - scan PDF417
    - scan ticket 1
    - scan ticket 2

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Hopefully in the near future (https://nfc-forum.org/news/2024-07-nfc-forum-defines-next-ge...) you would just need to tap you phone once, and get your ID passed to the scanner, along all the tickets for that venue & time.

No more opening app, and showing different tickets and IDs.

That would clear that argument.

For one, this is a problem world wide, but OK, you can try to solve it for the US.

But for another, not everyone has a state ID card. In particular the 7.1% of the population that does not have U.S. citizenship will have varying amounts of US documentation, depending on how long they're in the US for and whether they're there legally.

And you really want to be able to sell tickets to tourists.

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