Nor do I, but the issue in some of those court cases was whether the public had a right to COMPEL the Secretary of State, (0r other election officials) to do their D@mn job.
The court ruled, "No, the Public does NOT have a right to compel State election officials to do their D@mn job. " They can do their job if they wish, but nobody can make them do it.
Again, just pure, concentrated unadulterated idiocy from the Courts. It's probably a long distance leftover from the Prigg v Pennsylvania decision back in 1842, and is another example of how the slavery issue just totally bollixed our laws.
In many states the law says that the Secretary of State MUST approve the nominee of a “recognized political party” for the ballot.
A change in the wording of state election law is needed in those states because the “damn job” of the Secretary of State is to rubber stamp a party’s nominee.
In most states the Secretary of State has no investigative budget, no legislative enforcement ability (ie subpoena power) and no staffing to conduct a thorough examination of candidates’ qualifications.
In Alabama the state Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that state law dd not empower the Secretary of State to investigate Barack Obama’s natural born citizenship. Alabama has an elected Supreme Court with nine elected Republicans on the bench.