Bennett didn’t challenge it because he assumed the letter of verification was wrong, even though the legal presumption is supposed to be for regularity. That cool with you? An official asking a question and dismissing the under-oath response as wrong just because he wants to believe it’s wrong?
And Kobach didn’t challenge it because the objector withdrew the objection after having him and his family members’ lives threatened. That cool with you?
After receiving Onaka’s letters both Bennett and Kobach said that they were now satisfied that the questions they had about Obama’s birthplace had been answered and they cleared Obama for the ballot in states that Romney won by landslides. That’s the bottom line.
Nobody threatened Kobach’s or Bennett’s families and they were the ones who issued the statements to the press, not the person who filed the Kansas objection and then withdrew it.