When they give tickets, they take address, etc information. Its data harvesting. When people show up, then they can target that person.
I hope those people who got tickets to scam get spammed up the wazoo.
Just tell everyone who shows up that they should have their information written down so that they can hand it in when they file in. Have a standard sheet they can print off available online. Collect them at the door.
If they harvested all the data from the teens who scammed for tickets, it’s not all that valuable anyway. Data harvested at the gates, directly from those coming in, would be much more reliable.
It’s not a far stretch from ordering a ticket you are not going to use and denying an honest person that seat to voter fraud. It’s the same level of dishonesty.