“Is that what the state courts are saying?”
No, they are saying that existing laws do not require the SoS to act. Change the law.
If you want SOS John Gale to be required to investigate Presidential candidates change the law to require it.
BTW, there have been examples where SoS have removed people from the ballot because information in their filings showed them to be ineligible for the Presidency.
The rulings are that the SOS CANNOT require documentation if the law doesn’t specifically say he/she has to. And he/she can’t refuse to allow known election fraud because the law doesn’t say that election fraud is illegal (or whatever). I mean they say that election fraud is illegal but they don’t say that the SOS has to keep it from happening if he/she knows it is happening. God knows it isn’t, like, being an accomplice to a crime if you know it is happening and you participate in it willingly... I imagine there are laws that say that participating in a known crime is itself a crime, but maybe they don’t exactly say, “When BOB BAUER presents a fraudulent OCON and you know it’s fraud and perjury but go right along with it you’re an accomplice to BOB BAUER’s crime, John Gale”.... so the law obviously doesn’t apply to that situation.
And unless the law says, “Nellie R, if you go 10 miles over the speed limit on 13th Street in Crete, you are speeding and may lawfully be pulled over and arrested”, well, then, how can the cops say they are authorized to pull me over?
We could do this game ad nauseum. But we won’t. Not with the little people. Only with the dark overlords will we act as if we can’t even wipe our bottoms unless the laws specifically tell us to, when, where, and for how long.
Stinks to high heaven. It’s LAWLESSNESS. One set of rules for me, another for thee. Obama would have been arrested the night of his nomination acceptance speech if Obama was treated just like every other little person in this country.
Justice will come. It’s just delayed for a while. God knows the truth, and He will not be mocked. I fear there’s going to be Hell on earth before we reach justice though. If people are gnashing their teeth at Obamacare so far, they’ve got a very, very rude awakening at what is going to come. Obama is a foreign enemy combatant who has aligned himself with terrorist Islamists at every opportunity and done everything in his power to hurt this country and its people. When the fangs come all the way out there will be a lot of people who will be wishing they had listened while they still had time.
John Gale, I’m talking to YOU.