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[Opinion Article]

I recently was on a United Airlines flight from Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport, IAH, to Orlando, MCO. I had heard about the TSA coming out with a new electronic machine that would verify identification documents presented at security checkpoints, but didn't follow the news to close to know where and when, or how they worked. I only knew it compared the name on the boarding pass to the one on the ID, something the TSA agent can also do.