wrote on Feb 21^st, 2003 at 11:28pm:

My question is to anyone who follows this site. Will pre-employment polygraph tests ever be banned? If so, what will it take, and how long will it be?

Anon:
I have to say that pre-employment polygraph testing will in fact eventually be banned.  The wheels of justice turn every so slowly, but they do turn.  
How long will it take?  Who is to know for certain?  I think that when too many desirable and qualified applicants become unavailable due to being DQ'd on poly results, a more serious look will be take at the poly.  I also think that when the public at large become more aware of the devastation the polygraph has had on so many innocent lives, they too will begin to rise up and cry for reform.  
Unfortunately, it takes victims, and often times an incredible amount of victims, to have an arbitrary and useless practice banned.
Regards,