No ear mics allowed for debate moderators; But what about the candidates?

World Tribune ^ | 9/25/2016

[BlackFemaleArmyColonel]

The presidential debate moderators will not be allowed to wear earpieces, according to published reports.

But what about the presidential candidates themselves?

A voter in Maryland wrote Federal Elections Commissioner Matthew Petersen on Sept. 8 seeking a "clear response" to that question.

"I read reports that during the televised event questioning each of the candidates on their qualifications to serve as Commander in Chief, that Secretary Clinton had a microphone in her ear to receive prompting and guidance from advisers off stage," wrote Laurence B of Columbia, MD.

[A check of his name and address at the Maryland State Board of Elections Internet site verified the writer's identity as a registered voter.]

"Surely this is a more serious violation of competition than the doping which the Olympics have had to clean up. ... Can you please confirm that your commission will take conclusive steps to ensure that no such cheating takes place during the debates?" the letter concluded.

When he received no response to his letter, he wrote again on Sept. 21: "I've got to say I'm really discouraged not to have received a confirmation from you or from your office that your policy will be to disallow the two candidates to wear ear microphones. Am I to interpret your lack of a response to mean that such behavior will, indeed be accepted?"

[Jamestown1630]

Things like this, along with hearing aids, can be made to be practically invisible, and it’s been so for many years. So I was puzzled by those pictures that seemed to show something obviously in her ear...

Very inept, if that is what it was. Sort of like hiring a nobody who has to ask Reddit for help...

[arthurus]

I am not impressed with her staff’s technical knowledge or practices.

[Jamestown1630]

She’s stuck in the past in so many ways, it spills over into everything.