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He IS the President! (Obviously, people reading my work here are not as familiar with my blog as people reading my work, there.)

The people of Texas only elected Electors in November 2008. The Electors elected BO in December; according to the Constitutional description of their jobs, they could have elected HRC; or JMc; or...


22 posted on 04/07/2010 3:52:19 PM PDT by jbjd (http://jbjd.wordpress.com)
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From Wikipedia:
“Twenty-four states have laws to punish faithless electors. While no faithless elector has ever been punished, the constitutionality of state pledge laws was brought before the Supreme Court in 1952 (Ray v. Blair, 343 U.S. 214). The court ruled in favor of the state’s right to require electors to pledge to vote for the candidate to whom they are pledged, as well as to remove electors who refuse to pledge. Once the elector has voted, their vote can only be changed in states such as Michigan and Minnesota, where votes other than those pledged are rendered invalid. However, in all twenty-four states, a faithless elector may only be punished after he or she votes. The Supreme Court has ruled that, as electors are chosen via state elections, they act as a function of the state, not the federal government. Therefore states have the right to govern electors. The constitutionality of state laws punishing electors for actually casting a faithless vote, rather than refusing to pledge, has never been decided by the Supreme Court.”

Also, the state of Hawaii says that the short form COLB is the official birth certificate of that state. It is recognized by the federal government for passport and Social Security card purposes and the short form contains all the information required to establish eligibility to be president or vice president under Article 2 Section 1: date of birth, and place of birth.
Any law requiring ONLY a long form certificate in states that no longer issue a long form certificate is likely to be ruled unconstitutional.
http://www.starbulletin.com/columnists/kokualine/20090606_kokua_line.html


23 posted on 04/07/2010 6:24:23 PM PDT by jamese777
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