I don't quite understand how NOT requiring every individual ID to be shown, NOT requiring demographic information for 1 day passes, and NOT making individualized badges would require "paying a lot of people substantial hourly wages or a yearly salary to implement." I also fail to see how a volunteer transcribing information from a form in a back office, would cost more than a vounteer attendees have to stand in a second line to see personally. Both are free after all.
It might also occur to someone that if only four volunteers to work as cashiers can be found it's likely that Dragon Con has out grown it's all volunteer staffing. Dragon Con has exceeded 20 thousand attendees for at least 3 years straight, and since said attendees paid about $35 per day, one might assume they could afford a few $7/hr cashiers.
