There’s an interesting new development in the Alabama ballot challenge. As of August 1, the Secretary of State in Alabama, Beth Chapman, who is the defendant in the case to be heard before the Alabama Supreme Court, has resigned to take a private sector job. Alabama’s Govermor has appointed a new Secretary of State named Jim Bennett. I don’t think that anyone yet knows what his position is on Obama’s eligibility.
Beth Chapman had vigorously defended the position that Alabama law does not require or permit her to check presidential candidates’ eligibility.
Alabama has one of the most conservative Supreme Courts in the nation, no current Justice was appointed by a Democrat.
Beth Chapman was informed that the OCON she received was fraudulent. She didn’t have to “check a presidential candidate’s eligibility”; all she needed to know is that Onaka confirmed there are no legally-established birth facts for Obama, and that would tell her that the OCON swearing he was eligible has to be fraudulent. How is a SOS supposed to handle an election filing that he/she knows to be fraudulent? That is the real question here.