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[The process tracks people.

Letting people in anonymously... not a great idea.]

That’s untrue. People are let in anonymously. But they are put through a metal detector. There is also presumably a bomb-sniffing machine. Tickets aren’t required. Those who show up before the arena is full are admitted. The whole ticket thing is a basically a fund-raising opportunity. You are signing up for the opportunity to be spammed endlessly with fund-raising e-mails.

What may be problematic about the Trump campaign announcing huge ticket numbers is that it may suppress turnout. Who wants to line up for hours and hours, only to end up outdoors? Even the people outdoors have to get in line and go through a bomb detector. And then there’s the parking issue. If a million people had actually shown up, parking would have been a nightmare.

Best to keep the numbers close to their chests. I expect that after this left-wing engineered fiasco, combined with what I believe was the campaign’s exhortations to people to sign up to show their support (and provide their e-mail addresses so the campaign could solicit their donations), the Trump campaign will be a little more close-mouthed about future ticket numbers. It costs money to put up these events. To spend big money on infrastructure and have fewer people show up than projected - that was money that could have been spent elsewhere.

Letting people in anonymously... not a great idea.

Anonymously is the only way I would attend a Trump rally.

A requirement that I provide valid personal information to obtain a ticket would be unacceptable. I don't want to be doxxed, and I don't want to be drowned in obnoxious funding requests (as the RNC once did to me).

What happened at this rally will not happen again. We now know that the left will try to inflate the probable attendance at Trump rallys, so people believe they have little chance to get in. We now understand that we should ignore those numbers and just go to the rallies.