What difference does matching make, if the record it matches is not legally valid? Answer that.
KS SOS Kris Kobach used the same language as Tepper except that he asked for verification that the information on the White HOuse image was IDENTICAL, rather than “matches”. Onaka would not verify that. So what does “matches” even mean, legally? Is there a legal definition that Tepper can cite for the judge? Does either he or the judge even know what information Onaka was talking about, or what he meant by “matched”?
What Tepper got is totally useless. He could have had it all. Why wouldn’t he get a certified letter that required no guesswork whatsoever? You can try to argue that what he had is good enough - even though there aren’t legal definitions for “information” or “matches” and Onaka would not verify the technical term of “identical” so “matches” apparently doesn’t mean “identical”, in Onaka’s mind - but why even argue about whether it is good enough when he could have had something that left no room for questions at all?
The Arizona SOS let Obama on the ballot because he assumed that the letter of verification was WRONG when it failed to verify the birth date.
The Nebraska SOS let Obama on the ballot because NE statute says they have to put a name on the ballot if they receive an Official Certification of Nomination from the Dem Party - and since it doesn’t stipulate that it must be a LAWFUL (non-perjurious, non-fraudulent) OCON, he would have put Obama on the ballot even if Obama and Bauer were both sitting in jail for filing perjurious documents because they claimed eligibility.
The KS SOS let Obama on the ballot because the challenger withdrew the challenge out of fear for his and his loved ones’ lives, after all the threats he received.
So of the 3 SOS’s I have worked with, NONE of them rested their decision on what Onaka put in the letters of verification. The Alabama SOS is resting on the argument that they can’t require any kind of proof of eligibility - which is the same drivel I got back from maybe a half-dozen other SOS’s as well. They are ALL fudging their way out of this by saying eligibility is none of their business either.
I’d like you to acknowledge, though, that Ken Bennett allowed Obama on the ballot because he assumed that the letter of verification he received was wrong. That’s what he told a Freeper who asked him directly. So that is one very critical SOS who AGREED with what I’ve said, but assumed that the lack of verification was a mistake.
“What difference does matching make, if the record it matches is not legally valid? Answer that”
I would guess that Tepper doesn’t consider the record to be not legally valid. And I would also guess that the courts are going to agree with him.