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Candidates can take notes with the paper and pen or pencil of their choice,

but the implements have to be

precleared by the Commission on Presidential Debates,

which will take custody of the devices and place them on the podiums.

 

Debate's rules go beyond obvious

Regulations cover all aspects of the event, from the makeup to the camera angles.

 

Basic rules

Here's how the debates will work:

• Each debate will take place before a live audience, have a single moderator and last for 90 minutes.

 

• In the first and third presidential debates and the vice presidential debate, the candidates

shall be seated with the moderator at a table.

 

• No opening statements; two-minute closing statements.

 

• A coin toss will determine the order of questioning and closing statements.

 

• Moderators will have discretion to ask follow-up questions.

 

• Each candidate can use his own makeup artist. 

  

It took 32 pages in a "memorandum of understanding" to delineate the rules for the upcoming three presidential debates and one vice presidential debate.

 

Candidates can take notes with the paper and pen or pencil of their choice,

but the implements have to be

precleared by the Commission on Presidential Debates,

which will take custody of the devices and place them on the podiums.

 

Candidates cannot "use risers or any other device to create an impression of elevated height."

 

The rules also specifically allow each side to unleash an unlimited number of spinners into the media center after the debate.

 

There will be no television shots of anything other that the candidate who is speaking and the moderator.

No family-in-the-audience shots and

no shots of one candidate rolling his eyes while the other is talking.

Candidates need not worry about when they are on camera and when they are not. If they're talking, they're on camera. If they're not, they are not on camera.

 

Under the rules, the cameras will be locked in place but "may, however, tilt or rotate as needed."