The problem actually is not going to be verification in the sense that this international consultation and analysis mechanism will actually tell us a lot of what we need to know.

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This proposal threatens to become the latest in a long line of expensive verification systems that fail a basic cost-benefit analysis and threaten to drown Americans in bureaucracy at every stage of their lives.

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New forms of student verification are being developed and include such things as retinal scanning, electronic fingerprinting, and key stroke analysis.

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