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* April 22, 2010, 8:34 AM ET

Arizona House to Obama: No Birth Certificate, No Ballot

By Ashby Jones

arizonaBirthers rejoice! After a string of court defeats, you’ve got yourself a small but real win.

The Arizona House approved a bill Wednesday that would require presidential candidates to show his or her birth certificate in order to be on the state’s ballot.

In other words, if President Obama wants to appear on the Arizona ballot in 2012, he just might have to produce his birth certificate. Click here for the story from Fox News; here for a squib from New York magazine.

The House approved the measure on a 31-29 vote after four Republicans joined all of the Democrats in opposing it. The measure still faces a Senate vote.

It would require U.S. presidential candidates who want to appear on the Arizona ballot to submit documents proving they meet the constitutional requirements to be president.

The White House was not amused. “This is a question that has been answered exhaustively,” White House spokesman Bill Burton told CNN. “I can’t imagine Arizona voters think their tax dollars are well served by a legislature that is less focused on their lives than in fringe right-wing radio conspiracy theories.”

http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2010/04/22/arizona-house-to-obama-no-birth-certificate-no-ballot/

The Arizona Senate rejected that bill and if it had passed both Houses and been signed into law by the Governor, Obama would have simply presented his short form Certification of Live Birth from Hawaii because the bill didn’t specify any particular proof of birth.

In order to get on the ballot in Arizona in 2008, Obama signed a statement saying that he was a “natural born citizen of the United States.” If that statement was inaccurate, he could have been charged with a crime.
Here’s a link to a scanned copy of the state of Arizona form that he signed:
http://moniquemonicat.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/arizona-election-nomination-papers-barack-obama-signed-statement-he-is-a-natural-born-citizen2.pdf