Yes, but when we start talking about withholding electoral votes, we could be running into problems.
FWIW, I have no issue with requiring candidates to provide a certified copy of their birth certificate for verification. This is perfectly acceptable as the Constitution stipulates certain requirements to holding office. But this is something that Obama could have easily complied with and that's not what the people behind this type of legislation want. They want a law written in reaction to Obama's election and they want it to be specifically one that he can't comply with. This is why Rep. Burges would put the Secretary of State in the position of having to determine whether "individual circumstances" of a candidate's life disqualify him from being on the ballot. That's where "pre-approved by the State" comes into play and with this we'd be treading into dangerous territory.
FWIW, I have no issue with requiring candidates to provide a certified copy of their birth certificate for verification. This is perfectly acceptable as the Constitution stipulates certain requirements to holding office. But this is something that Obama could have easily complied with and that's not what the people behind this type of legislation want. They want a law written in reaction to Obama's election and they want it to be specifically one that he can't comply with.
I don't get it... how would the law requiring a candidate produce a birth certificate or else he cannot be on the ballot of the state -- be a law that he can't comply with?
I must be missing something in what you're saying, because I'm serious... I don't quite get what it is that the "people behind ths type of legislation want"... in that anyone (Obama or anyone else) couldn't comply with... it doesn't quite make sense.