Lawmakers: Obama ballot challenge unfairly denied

Concord Monitor ^ | January 4, 2012 | Maddie Hanna

[iontheball]

New Hampshire election law officials previously rejected their request to remove President Obama's name from the ballot in advance of next week's presidential primary, but that hasn't stopped several state representatives, who yesterday presented what they said was proof that officials had unfairly denied their challenge to the president's citizenship.

[frog in a pot]

Thank you for this update.

NH is in a real bind. It enacted legislation in 2010 which, for the first time, required presidential candidates to execute a sworn certification of eligibility in order to be named on the primary ballot. Prior instances of how NH treated eligibility are not relevant, in those cases the candidate disqualified himself.

Here the NH AG’s office refuses to investigte or verify the authenticity or a sworn certification. The larger, broader issue, beyond the apparent misbehavior of the public office, is whether NH’s sworn certifications are to be regarded as of any value.

There may yet be hope for NH.

[iontheball]

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[Texas Fossil]

Bipartisan?

NH Democratic Party Chairman Ray Buckley said:

“There’s no legitimate Democrat certainly north of the Mason-Dixon Line that is involved in any way with this.”

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Now, I suppose anything considered South of the Mason Dixon Line is irrelevant?

Ohhh, I forgot, Dems are not bridled by “the law”.

[philman_36]

I'm impressed with their article. JMO

[I am Richard Brandon]

"There may yet be hope for NH."

I hate to say it again, but, "in your dreams." The pattern is so fimly established that I am convinced that every time one of these challenges has even the slightest chance of being successful, there are phone calls made, threats of a very persuasive nature issued, silence demanded, and the matter rests - every time. For those threats to be successful, they need to carry the power of some very high authority and involve danger to children and other relative. / tin foil off

[philman_36]

Fast and Furious could use an impressive article as well.

[philman_36]

I hate to say it again, but, "in your dreams."

[frog in a pot]

...phone calls made, threats of a very persuasive nature issued, silence demanded, and the matter rests - every time.

That well may be the case. At a minimum the political fix - "damn the Constitution, whatever it takes to succeed" - has been in for some time.

To your point, we have a growing body of the disciples of the ‘60’s anti-Americans augmented by a group of down and dirty politicians. Carried to the extreme, if and when the court system more noticeably fails us and the people come to a clear realization we no longer are a nation of laws, it will be game on.

Re NH, as a temperature gauge it will be interesting to see whether the state representatives now speaking out are easily blown off. Or whether they press the argument in court, if necessary, that their government is ignoring the statutes they pass.