In a sane world, SoS Bennett would keep "Obama" off the ticket in AZ and it absolutely would precipitate a chain reaction. Color me skeptical however, for two reasons:
1. Team "Obama" was caught cold in GA, not even bothering to appear or present any evidence whatsoever and miraculously had the ALJ rule in Jablonsky's/Obama's favor and the SoS allow his name to appear there, on the basis of nothing, nothing at all. I seem to recall GA got approval to go forward on a couple of new nuclear reactor projects shortly thereafter. . .
2. In this sick, twisted world, Carney or Axelrod could come out and say something to the effect that "Obama" was kept of the ballot as political retaliation for the hard time the DoJ has been giving the state over immigration enforcement or some such thing, and the fifth-column media would help sell that message to a brain-dead public. And it would likely work.
If they can pooh-pooh away a long-standing (beginning in 1991 and undergoing several revisions) literary biography of him stating that he was "born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii" (before finally being revised in 2007 to reflect HI as birthplace) after everything that has gone before, including putting up patent forgeries, literally all bets are off regarding this guy.
Of course, to those who have studied this issue more than passingly, the birthplace issue is mostly a red herring anyhow, since it's impossible for the offspring of a non-resident foreigner (if we're being told the truth about even this) to qualify at all, due to the inherent presumed risk of divided loyalties in such an aspirant.
I enjoyed your prior post at #8. Well said.
Your number 2. is EXACTLY what they would do. Still, the name of the game would be to get them on defensive and off balance through “shock” and “awe” emanating from the Grand Canyon State, and then start to push in other red states to get his name off those ballots as well for the same legal reasons. It would take maybe an unofficial “committees of correspondence” between the SoS’s of friendly red states to cooperate and proliferate it. Obama off two or three state ballots out of 50 would be incredible negative PR. But you are right. This is where either a) bribery or b) threats, direct, veiled or otherwise, would come in from the Feds to the state capitals. But heck, King George III threatened the colonies, eh?
I agree. Well stated.