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Re:I Turned a Routine Traffic Ticket into a Constitutional T... by masklinn on Saturday January 14, 2017 @05:48AM (#13397860)
Interestingly that can also be used the other way in places with "point system" licenses (assuming the driver's face is not visible or it was a backside camera), some people will pay their ticket but (after having arranged it) "rat on" someone else who'll get their points docked.
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Re:I Turned a Routine Traffic Ticket into a Constitutional T... by jsmeaton on Saturday January 14, 2017 @06:20AM (#13397945)
The photographs literally don't matter. As long as the form has a name on it, and the fine is paid, it's not like they're going to look at the photo and do a match against the identified driver.
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Re:I Turned a Routine Traffic Ticket into a Constitutional T... by DanBC on Saturday January 14, 2017 @06:28AM (#13397958)
That's not the case in the UK where taking someone else's points is perjury and results in fines or jail time.
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Re:I Turned a Routine Traffic Ticket into a Constitutional T... by masklinn on Saturday January 14, 2017 @08:57AM (#13398370)
And the purpose of points systems is to cap out the number of infractions[0] a driver can perform regardless of their wealth. If you can shift the points loss, they can not fulfil their purpose.

[0] for infractions which are all short of an immediate license loss

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Re:I Turned a Routine Traffic Ticket into a Constitutional T... by jsmeaton on Sunday January 15, 2017 @10:39PM (#13408060)
But do they verify photos against claims? I'm certain they don't here in Australia (at least not 100%), because .. others .. have done this very thing when they were younger.
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