>That’s the way I see it, but if somebody can give me an example that would work using only 2 sentences, I would gladly scrap this whole thing and use something else.
Possible 2 Sentence suggestion:
No person who does not meet the United States Constitution Article 2, Section 1 qualification for President shall be listed under this state’s ballot as candidate for either President or Vice President. The Secretary of State shall confirm such qualification prior to listing and shall provide [redacted] copies of the verifying documents to any Citizen who shall requests them.
That’s another one where it seems like it would be a no-brainer, but in Nebraska, for instance, the only document required to get a candidate on the ballot is the Certification of Nomination from the national party (RNC or DNC). So if that law was passed in Nebraska, John Gale would disclose to anybody who asked a copy of Nancy Pelosi’s Certification of Nomination, on which she perjured herself by saying that Obama was the “duly chosen” candidate of the DNC, which is supposed to mean that he’s Constitutionally eligible. It doesn’t mean that, but unless there were other specific verifying documents, that is the document they would say would fulfill that law’s requirement.
It gets back to the NJ SOS issue, where she was required by law to verify Constitutional eligibility and just didn’t think any documents were necessary. That was perfectly fine with the courts. The law didn’t say which documents she had to look at so none was fine; she could have done it by psychic analysis and it would have met the letter of that law.
And in Ohio, the SOS was required to locate ineligible voters. BUT because the law didn’t specifically say she had to show the list to anybody, she didn’t. Again, the courts were fine with that - although I think they hid behind the “standing” issue again.
Those are the kinds of shenanigans that an SOS can get away with, which is why George Soros is concentrating on getting SOS positions filled with communists who will not hesitate to break the laws with a smile.
When I spoke with Nebraska SOS John Gale in the middle of all this he said that if the candidate signs a statement saying they are Constitutionally eligible that’s all anybody needs to see. The media would never let a politician get away with lying.
That conversation that I had with him plays heavily into why I tend to be more exact and specific in the requirements. From what I’ve seen we simply cannot trust bureaucrats even with no-brainer mandates. If it’s not spelled out exactly, with penalties if they don’t obey, it may as well not be law at all. That’s based on what I’ve seen and experienced from the bureaucrats.
What I’m proposing has as much to do with holding bureaucrats accountable as it has to do with presidential eligibility. I’m not sure that the two can be separated, after what I’ve seen.