Originally Posted by
shadyjay
Just looking at a pass and verifying it only works for the paper tickets. It doesn't tell you if a pass is inactive, hotlisted, etc. For instance, I have a collection of passes. I seem to get a different one each year as an employee. Just one of them is active. But you'd never know it until you scan them as they have no years listed on them. For someone else who may have had a pass from a previous year and doesn't this year, they could in theory put that pass on their jacket and if they don't get scanned, the ticket checker would never know that's a bad pass- if going by the look only.