what you just described is a popularity contest, not law. a contest that required him to be on the ballot in the first place... whose integrity would be lost due to his inelibility to be there in the first place.
under your guidelines, Arnold Schwarzenegger could run and win the popularity contest... then all he has to do is convince any judges to dismiss all challenges before ever being heard (which is a lot easier for a dem then a conservative as the courts have been packed by the left)
btw, in any if the 342 legal challenges 0bama had (I was only aware of the 23 cases), was there a single case in which he submitted any documentation, ie: a birth certificate, to the court as evidence of eligibility? in all the cases I’m aware of, he’s been able to avoid that on every occasion.
Arnold Schwarzenegger would LOVE to run for president but he doesn’t run because he knows that he would be ruled ineligible due to being naturalized.
Under the ballot challenge laws in each state, in 2012 alone Obama was challenged 52 times LEGALLY, not by popularity, in 22 states plus in the District of Columbia as to his eligibility to be on the ballot. No judge or state election board ruled him to be ineligible.
Senator Cruz would most likely face similar challenges.
Barack Obama’s attorney, Michael Jablonski, submitted a copy of Obama’s long form birth certificate in the famous “trial on the merits” in the four Georgia ballot challenges. Administrative Law Judge Michael Mahili ruled that Obama was eligible. Here’s a brief excerpt from that ruling: Administrative Law Judge Michael Mahili, State of Georgia Administrative Hearings, Farrar et. al., Welden, Swensson and Powell v Obama: “For the purposes of this analysis, the Court considered that Barack Obama was born in the United States. Therefore, as discussed in Ankeny, he became a citizen at birth and is a natural born citizen. Accordingly, President Barack Obama is eligible as a candidate for the presidential primary under O.C.G.A. under Section 21-2-5(b).” February 3, 2012
http://www.scribd.com/doc/80424508/Swensson-Powell-Farrar-Welden-vs-Obama-Judge-Michael-Malihi-s-Final-Order-Georgia-Ballot-Access-Challenge-2-3-12
Obama’s attorney J. Scott Tepper has also submitted a copy of Obama’s long form birth certificate and a Certified Letter of Verification for it from the Registrar of Vital Statistics for the State of Hawaii for U.S. District Court Judge Henry T. Wingate in the Mississippi Obama ballot challenge. Although the birth certificate and the letter of verification were submitted on June 6, 2012, Judge Wingate has not yet ruled on their probative value as evidence.
Plaintiiffs’ attorney Orly Taitz also submitted a copy of the whitehouse.gov image of Obama birth certificate for Judge Wingate. She claims that it is a forgery.
You can view J. Scott Tepper’s Obama birth certificate exhibits on pages 11 & 12 at the following link. http://www.scribd.com/mobile/doc/96289285
Finally, the Alabama Democratic Party submitted a copy of Obama’s long form birth certificate in their Amicus Brief for the Alabama Supreme Court in the Alabama ballot challenge, McInnish, Goode v. Chapman.