I think it is the Federal Election Commission who receives the ‘application’ for one to run for the presidency.
After the election, the new House certifies the election.
In Obama’s case, the House has certified him [his electors] twice — January 2009 and January 2013.
All the FEC does is monitor campaign finance laws. They do not vet presidential candidates or their qualifications to run.
FEC only does money. And when questions arose regarding foreign campaign contributions for Obama the FEC refused to investigate because they said the winner gets to choose his battles. IOW, as long as it appears you’ve won you’ve got a free ticket. We have NOBODY looking out for whether laws and rules are being broken.
But it is the Secretary of State in each state which determines who can be on their ballot. Most states say that only eligible candidates can run for the office they seek.
In the case of AL SOS BEth Chapman, she received a certified-mail letter from Larry Klayman explaining that HI state registrar Alvin Onaka had been asked point-blank to verify Obama’s birth facts and would not, which means that those facts are not claimed on a legally-valid BC. Because Onaka did say that the facts requested to be verified WERE claimed on the record they have, the only reason to refuse to verify them is because the record they have is not legally valid. Without a legally valid record, there is no way that Antonio Villagairosa and Alice Travis Germond could LAWFULLY swear on the DNC’s Official Certification of Nomination that Obama is Constitutionally qualified for the position of POTUS. Nobody can know that without first getting a judicial ruling on the probative value of that non-valid record, because without a probative record there are no legally-established birth facts.
IOW, Chapman was notified, in advance of the placement of Obama’s name on the ballot, that the HI state registrar had effectively confirmed that Obama has no legally-valid HI birth record so his eligibility could not be known without a legal investigation. She knew that the DNC OCON was fraudulent. A person who has that knowledge has a LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY, by virtue of her oath to protect and defend the US Constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic, to raise the alarm - just as surely as if she knew a masked bandit was breaking into the White House to steal everything there. Failure to respond makes her an ACCOMPLICE to the crime.
The Congressional Research Service put out a paper to the members of Congress basically saying that it is up to the states to determine who goes on their ballot. If the AL Supreme Court rules that it is nobody’s business if the SOS ignores screaming red flags and legal challenges in order to place a likely-ineligible candidate on the ballot, then the system itself has said that the country has NO LEGAL PROTECTION against a usurper. None. There is NOBODY who can be required to safeguard the Constitution.
BEnghazi was terrible. A lie was knowingly passed off as an explanation so that nobody would/could investigate what really happened. We’d all like to know who knew what, and when. Well..... every SOS in this country had advance warning that a guy who has no legal documentation of eligibility was trying to enter our White House. If the courts say it is nobody’s business - ever - then they may as well go spit on the graves of the Benghazi victims too, because they’re saying NONE OF THIS - NOTHING THAT OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS DO - is any of our business, and there is nothing we can do when they screw us all in full sight of everyone.
If this doesn’t matter, then nothing matters. It’s really that simple. If we have no way to MAKE our elected officials obey the laws and keep their oaths, then we may as well not have any laws or oaths. Period. Are you ready to go there?