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To: Non-Sequitur

A bill requiring all receiving electoral votes to submit proof of eligibility as per Constitutional requirements, prior to Congressional certification, under penalty of disqualification, would suffice.

Why not do it now?


21 posted on 12/17/2008 10:24:48 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry
Why not do it now?

I'd support it, though I don't know if it'd be Constitutional since the electoral votes have already been cast. But regardless, someone should take the lead and try and get legislation passed to prevent future elections from having this issue.

26 posted on 12/17/2008 10:33:45 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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The thing that stands in Linder's way here is that he is but one Member of Congress, and in the Minority party at that. I am not an expert on parliamentary action, can a majority override one member's objection? I'm supposing it can, that Linder's objection will be duly noted in the record of proceedings, going nowhere fast.

As to legislation, again, one member -- does he sit on the relevant committee? Would a Democrat chairman of said committee bring a bill up for committee debate, pass it on to full debate in the House, should it pass, then get it through the Senate??

On all these BC threads, I have attempted to make the point that we are long past the "say so" method when it comes to certifying candidates meet the Constitutional requirements for federal office. If they cannot get proper procedural legislation passed in Congress, then the legislature of each state ought to pass something, at the very least, the party hierarchy ought to have some method whereby one's citizenship is verified, in the case of presidential nomination, that the candidate is indeed natural-born.

40 posted on 12/17/2008 10:52:14 AM PST by MozarkDawg
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