I disagree. The existing requirement should be enforced. When a candidate files their paperwork, the valid documentation should be part of it.
The current requirement is rational, the framers of the Constitution put it there for specific reasons. It is entirely reasonable.
But like much of what we see going on in government, there are no penalties for ignoring the Constitution. Nobody in the elected bodies care or have the guts to say anything.
You are only as much of a valid constitutional republic as the willingness of the elected officials to follow the rules outlined in it. And they are routinely ignored. So we aren’t much better than a banana republic now.
Agreed!