Slightly away from where the conversation has gone with the issues around ST, but I've had some thoughts on the touting problems and the people who are involved with touting and ticket transfers.
First of all, I don't think too many people have a problem with genuine fans passing on a few games a season to mates and family, or even sharing a card with someone to get around problems with shifts, money or anything else. Unfortunately it seems these sorts of people are the ones who will get caught in the crossfire with the suggestions of photos, ID, inspections and similar.
Secondly, the people who buy off the touts. Not ideal, sometimes day trippers and sometimes regular fans who don't go to many games but want one for a match they can make, or a big game they want to go to. These are half the problem when it comes to touting, the demand side, however I do have some sympathy as it's the only way many of them can get a ticket. Take away the touts and these people would be more than happy to buy through a legitimate channel, at a fair price.
Finally, the touts. These are the people we need to target. The way I see them working is by having a members card with 13/14/15+ credits on, so guaranteed the bulk for the next season. Buy all the tickets, get the credits and then sell them on to recoup the outlay plus a profit. To stop them then, we need to hit the credits so they can't continue.
The popular suggestion is target the ticket after it's been passed on so you can identify which accounts are being used to tout and then take their credits off them and possible hand out a ban. As I noted earlier though, a lot of genuine fans get caught as collateral with this which isn't ideal. Not to mention the massive amount of hassle it would be to set up and check photos, IDs or even finger prints.
My suggestion then, is to hit the credits directly. Set up stations actually inside the ground where there's essentially a credit amnesty. You take the card or ticket you used to get into the ground, swipe it and swipe your card (either existing or a shiny new £25 one you can buy at the stand) and the credit gets transferred from the original to yours. No come back, that's it.
This gets around the issue of passing a ticket to a mate, a family member and even fv on the ticket exchange to another rawk member (hopefully, anyway). The only time you're in danger of losing credits is when you sell to a random who you've ripped off for double the price.
Now there are some issues. I'm sure a few people will have a problem in effectively rewarding people for buying touted tickets but to them I say it's a means to an end. Stop the touts and there will then be no need to reward people any more. Essentially, don't cut your nose off to spite your face. Secondly, not everyone's going to take advatage of the credit swap. Your stereotypical lad from China who's in the UK for a couple of weeks and wants to take in a game clearly isn't going to do it as he doesn't have a members card, isn't going to get one and it's all round more hassle than it's worth for him. However all it takes is a few people in a year and the tout goes below the threshold for guaranteed tickets and struggles the next season.
In fact, I've just thought of a way to address both these problems is the ability to still use the stations but just to remove a credit from a card with no come back and no need to necessarily transfer it. Obviously it's not perfect, nothing is, but I think it's a decent crack at solving the majority of the problems.