1. And those election boards should routinely check a candidate's Social Security number to make sure it is not a fake or a stolen number.
2. What do the election boards, like the one in Indiana, do when it comes to a presidential applicant's Social Security number: Do they simply take the candidate's word that the number belongs to the candidate without any proof whatsoever?
3. For instance, what happens if the candidate is someone who no one has ever heard of? How do election officials in Georgia or any state know that the applicant has a valid Social Security number unless they check the number somehow, like using e-verify?
4. If election boards do not verify a presidential candidate's Social Security number somehow, like using e-verify, then the election board is not performing its moral duty to use every possible resource to prove that a presidential candidate's application is valid and that the candidate is who he claims to be in order protect we voters from fraudulent presidential applications.
5. Really, we are not talking about checking the Social Security number of hundreds or thousands of presidential candidates.
6. I would think that 10 candidates would be a lot, so how long would it take an election board to check the Social Security numbers of 10 presidential candidates using e-verify? Maybe an hour at most?
7. This is what is sad about this whole Obama eligibility mess: I bet that soon after the Nov. 2012 election, states will be jumping all over each other to pass presidential candidate eligibility laws for the next election in 2016, because Obama won 't be eligible to run in 2016, and so election boards will feel comfortable in passing eligibility laws when they can't be accused of passing such laws simply to attack Obama.
8. For instance, I see some eligibility requirements that will probably be listed in new eligibility laws:
a. A candidate must provide a copy of his long form birth certificate.
b. A candidate's Social Security number must be verified by using a system like e-verify.
c. A candidate must provide a copy of his Social Security original application, a copy of which any person can obtain from Social Security for a small fee. Check Social Security's own website for details.
9. If a candidate does not meet the requirements above, his name will not be allowed on the 2016 presidential ballot.
10. If e-verify is good enough for a small business to check out the Social Security number of a job applicant, then surely it should be good enough to check out the Social Security number of a presidential candidate who applies to run for President of the United States, shouldn't it?
Exactly. Will anyone have the nougats to ask Obama in the fall why he uses a stolen SS number? It goes like this :
“when you registered for the draft at 18, as well as [ name recent time he last used it] you used the SS # [whatever it is]. This number was previously used by [the dead guy’s name]. Can you explain this, please?”
WHO IS GOING TO DO IT?