When you’re elected to a position where the facts of your birth determine if you are qualified for the job, your birth certificate should be public information.
Make it a state law (like I've been saying since after the election) and it will be ... :-)
I've said from back then that the various states (or even one or two or three of them; that's fine, too...) should make it a law that a candidate cannot be on the ballot in that state unless he (or she) produces their birth certificate.
Get that going and you'll have it... :-)
There have already been about four states that started that legal process (but it hasn't passed yet).
knock yourself out. I said what should be. I am not an activist.
The Hawaii DOH Administrative Rules agree with you. If only Chiyome Fukino hadn’t hid them until a year after the election, any secretary of state might have known they could ask for and receive a certified copy of his original birth certificate and saved a lot of trouble.
Fukino illegally hid those rules until it was too late for the SOS’s to ask for a certified copy.
I think it’s time that law enforcement investigated why she did that.
There is another thread about this subject, from earlier, if anybody’s interested. Do a search of “Espero” in the thread titles and it’ll take you to it.
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.