“We’re hoping to obtain that over the weekend,” Brad Bryant, the state’s election director, said of Mr. Obama’s birth certificate. “And then they will reconvene Monday in the morning to consider that document, put it in the record and then make a decision on whether the name of Barack Obama will be on the ballot.”
Good luck trying to get a copy from Hawaii.
Posted 10 minutes ago on the NYSlimes Blog:
Kansas Birthers
http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/14/kansas-birthers/
The board has asked the authorities in Honolulu, Arizona and Mississippi for documentation to verify the authenticity of Mr. Obama’s birth certificate. It’s also trying to settle the separate question of whether the president is a “natural born” citizen, since his father was Kenyan and, in the view of some conspiracy theorists, the Constitution’s definition of “natural born” means having two citizen parents. They’re wrong about that, but it hasn’t stopped them.
“I do think the factual record could be supplemented,” said Mr. Kobach, who is also an informal adviser to Mitt Romney.