There are certainly holes in the plot and more continuity issues than I have time to list, but the two issues you mention I think could be explained away with ease.
Mason switched the scores he may have wanted Blake to have the highest score, or maybe he knew that Laina came from a poor family, a family with no structure that would take issue as her father is gone and her mother is hospitalized, or maybe it was the name of the only person he didn't recognize. But that's all beside the point with issues. You can't just swap scores like that, and in the scene (30 minutes into the film) he swaps a 42% with an 80%. To me, plus the other kids that were switches backs up my previous point as this is clearly a common practice and so you need students whose family have no power or money to speak up. Laina is ideal because she's been acting as the matriarch since her mother became ill.
Slave labor is probably considered less humane than a merciful killing. Plus, this is clearly unknown to other countries, and Gov. Redding makes a point to state how advanced the US is as a result of 10-241.
A spattering of issues that bother me are:
1) He has access to a computer but he decides to use <i>snail mail</I> for his video message. Maybe he knows his computer is monitored so he'd be stopped before the test started, but he still needs to pass on his own merits and wouldn't be forced to pass, and he clearly didn't know about the switching method in place. Plus, what fancy neighborhood has an mailbox on the street like that today, much less the future.
2) They don't check the badge ID to make sure the credentials match the user? Sure, the power is down, but even today a school could have a handheld device that could hold the teachers DB on it. Tablets clearly were common in this movie.
3) Longhand math done on that tiny tablet without a stylus? I don't see that as feasible, but that's more in line with a low budget film trying to make ends meet.
4) It sure took Blake a long time to dress up in the guard's uniform that would both obscure his identity and afford him some protection, weapon, and possibly access to a communications device so he knows what's going. Laina may be a little short for a <i>schooltrooper</I> but it's better than nothing.
5) When you change the Pass/Fail, you assume that the scores would also go with the student as Pass/Fail would be an indictor based on the score, not independent of it. However, the system is failed so it could've been designed with a backdoor to change that for the privileged.
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