As long as you don't hang much hope on the effort, there's good reason to get the states to clarify the criteria and means (show of evidence) to qualify for being named on the electoral ballot.
I'm of a mind that there will be lawsuits whether or not there is a state statute that purports to define natural born citizen, and the lawsuits will make claims about what constitutes qualification. There were suits against McCain, and those would be a good point for review.
I can picture the Senate passing a resolution as it did for McCain. Has no binding value in Court, but it shows that there is no opposition in the Senate should that person win the electoral college.
I'm also of a mind that SCOTUS won't touch the issue unless and until Congress finds that a person openly known and admitted to be born off of US soil is qualified to be president. IOW, there can be a thousand lawsuits in lower courts, and SCOTUS will brush them off as not ripe (see McCain suits). How they act if Cruz is elected is a crap shoot. They may find the matter not-judiciable (see Marbury v. Madison for a sort of parallel - Court said Marbury was right, but the Court lacked jurisdiction) or a political question.
The real problem that we have is that the judiciary is claiming they don’t need to rule - that it’s nobody’s business and nobody is being harmed by us not having any answers.
The states can grant legal standing for people so that the courts HAVE to address an issue on the minds of the people, can’t they?
I wish I knew who all was a lawyer so I could ping them all and we could try to address the root of the problem, which is a system - including the judiciary - that says we the people have no standing to make any difference in anything. The whole system is set up for us to choose which lemming to send to the system and then that lemming becomes part of the system built to keep itself safe from we the people. When it comes to Congress’ criminality, the root of the problem is that we the people are not able to file criminal charges. That gives somebody like Eric Holder the ability to obstruct ALL law enforcement involving politicians.
That’s a root that we HAVE to address. On eligibility and a milion other issues, the system has to allow we the people to have buy-in, has to make the system accountable to we the people and NOT just to whoever we send to DC or our state bureaucracies.