How the Archdiocese of Washington Plans to Prevent Ticket Scalping

Details were released yesterday about efforts by the Archdiocese of Washington to prevent the scalping of tickets to its papal Mass. An AP story can be found at the Seattle Examiner.  It says, "Archbishop Donald Wuerl says every ticket has a bar code for a particular seat. So if the archdiocese sees or hears of a ticket being scalped on Web sites such as eBay or Craigslist, the ticket can be canceled."

I'm sure that's not going to prevent someone from trying. A couple of other tactics that I've heard that are being employed are that each ticket will be tied to a particular person, and that the tickets won't go out until two weeks before the event to prevent the amount of time that people will have them.