If you’re a convention delegate, guest, hell maybe even a member of the media or President Obama’s Finance team, it’s you are going through the 4th street entrance to enter the Time Warner Arena.

Attendees are then forced to take their credentials from the protective pastic sleeve twice, causing many to tear the top hole in their credentials. All so volunteers can touch and feel the texture embedded on the badges for verification purposes (as opposed to holograms and barcodes like every other single major conference and convention… ever) you get to have your belongings and self graced by none other than the Transportation Security Administration.

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