“Here we go again. If either of your parents is an American citizen then you are one too no matter where you were born.”
Citizen yes, natural born, NO. But, I have seen reports that Ted’s mom voted in Canada, supposedly needing to be a Canadian citizen to do so. The question becomes did she renounce her US citizenship to become a Canadian? I’m not saying she did, but it’s out there and Ted needs mama to have been a US citizen when he was born for him to be a US citizen.
As I pointed out the children born in Vietnam to servicemen were not able to claim citizenship. The laws are complex and that is why a consular form needs to be presented to the consulate, so that the right to American citizenship can be adjudged according to the circumstances of the birth, of the parents and of the statutes in force at the time.
And those reports are just as fallacious and crap loaded as the present buckets of dung being thrown all over this forum I have loved for so long.
I’ve seen the same reports, about Ted’s mom voting there.
And only Canadian citizens were allowed to vote in the Canadian elections.
They’d do a census type list first, names and addresses; then check citizenship to build the voter rolls.