During the January 2008 Republican presidential debate in Boca Raton, MSNBC moderator Tim Russert asked Mitt Romney, "Will you do for Social Security what Ronald Reagan did in 1983?" To guard against such helpers, the Commission on Presidential Debates employs an individual known as Frequency Coordinator armed with a spectrum analyzer to detect radio communication. Today spread-spectrum encrypted technology has been added to the audio--against it, the spectrum analyzer is essentially defenseless. The campaigns sign off on a Commission on Presidential Debates' memorandum that constitutes a set of rules. As Commission on Presidential Debates executive director Janet Brown put it, "You have to assume that a code of honor is being followed."

Source: Huffington Post September 25, 2016 14:37 UTC