The Hill has this article by Tom Squitieri, on the behavior of the Commission on Presidential Debates in recent past elections. Although there is a great deal of commentary about this, most other articles do not bring up the 2000 incident when guards at one of the presidential debates were furnished with pictures of all the minor party presidential and vice-presidential candidates. The guards were instructed to memorize the appearance of these individuals and bar them from the audience if they showed up.

The story also relates the 2012 incident when Jill Stein was arrested and kept in handcuffs for hours, for attempting to be in the audience at one of the debates.