[mvpel]

Cellular wireless networking is a reality - it's called CDPD, and you can get a little PCI modem for your laptop and service for $35 a month. It's slow, but it doesn't have to be warp speed to send over facial map data.

[thegreatbeast]

You write, "It's slow, but it doesn't have to be warp speed to send over facial map data."
Excuse me, but do you hear yourself? Speed isn't an issue when you are trying to identify god knows how many people entering a polling place? That is tons of information required at a rate that you have no control over.
It doesn't matter though as the software just doesn't work under these haphazard circumstances.