[IntolerantOfTreason]

I’m pretty sure this bill is laughable for other reasons as well. Will it specify detailed requirements on how the Secretary of State is to verify the documents they find, or could this easily be derailed by a lazy or unknowledgeable Secretary of State?

What it needs is
- to specifically require a candidate’s LONG FORM birth certificate, to verify that they were born in this country.
- to require naturalisation or birth documentation for the candidate’s parents, to verify that they are citizens of this country
- to require that appropriate (this may be informed by things like the candidate’s ancestry and recent foreign travel) other nations are contacted to ensure that they have never conferred citizenship on the candidate at their request or otherwise.

[steve-b]

to require that appropriate (this may be informed by things like the candidate’s ancestry and recent foreign travel) other nations are contacted to ensure that they have never conferred citizenship on the candidate at their request or otherwise

What is this nonsense? Some other nation deciding to confer citizenship on somebody is irrelevant.

[Charles Martel]

What it needs is
- to specifically require a candidate’s LONG FORM birth certificate, to verify that they were born in this country.

We need to be careful with jargon. The requirement should be for a clerk-certified copy of the signed original birth certificate and any subsequent attachments and modifications thereto. There shoud be a specific prohibition of computer-generated "certifications".

I would also include requirement for the candidate to sign a special power of attorney, giving the state the authority to request the certified copies directly from the alleged state of birth.