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The law should not require the candidate to produce a birth certificate. Rather, it should require the candidate to sign an authorization allowing the state’s election commission to obtain it directly from the state where the candidate was born.

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The law should not require the candidate to produce a birth certificate. Rather, it should require the candidate to sign an authorization allowing the state’s election commission to obtain it directly from the state where the candidate was born.

If that's the way you would like to see it produced, then get to work on your state legislature and get that requirement put into your state's law or else a candidate cannot be on the ballot.

I know that there have been four states that started this process of getting such a law on the books, but I haven't seen anyone mention that any of those four states had that specifically mentioned.

So, the best thing to do is to get it introduced into your state and get that law passed... :-)

There has been a lot of discussion here about needing laws to require the candidates to produce a birth certificate to see if they are quailifed. No such law is needed. Two candidates have been kept off the ballot in California by past secretaries of state because their BC showed they were too young to be president. This illustrates that no law is needed. The concept is that the secretary of state have to ceritify candidates for ommission to the ballot and to keep unqualifierd candidates off the ballot.

The current secretary of state in Cal knew there were allegations against OB's qualifications, yet she simply abdicated her responsibility to the Democrat National Committee's form that was submitted saying he was qualified.

McCain submitted his BC to congress, but as far as we know, no court, secretary of state, congress or electoral college has seen his BC. But to say thet there needs to be a law is to say that the secretaries of state have no power and that their office is purely ministerial.

Lastly, I do not object to any legislation to tighten up on this requirement. I just disagree with the interpretation of the problem.