what the heck is this........no more depth than this?
CALL FOR ACTION:
Please, all Fellow FREEPERS, please consider doing the following to prevent this mess ever happening again:
Call your State Senator, your State Representative and your Governor and ask them to provide simple legislation to give the Secretary of State the right, responsibility and obligation to confirm eligibility BEFORE ANYONE can go onto the ballot.
Personally, I think the best way to contact them is by phone during business hours, then a follow up by e-mail or mail to the person you talked to, then a follow-up a week or so later, but you can do what you think is best.
Practically, this would require all future candidates to fill out an application with supporting documentation, which could then be checked out by the Secretary of State’s office.
I don’t know about you, buy THIS idea seems a better use of our governments time then providing yet another social program designed to ruin people by not having them be accountable to their families (a basic problem).
If there is an enterprising lawyer or legislator on Free Republic who would like to provide well written sample legislation which could be submitted as a suggestion across the country, it would provide a basis for continuity.
Hope there are many, many people across the country who are willing to do this now, and after the election.
Remember..... 2012 is coming!
I agree...this just says these people were nominated. Says nothing about being eligible. When I sent out my dozen requests to various agencies within my state (Florida). my state of birth (Alabama) and Washington DC...I couldn’t even find out what is the authorizing agency that oversees qualifications for the offices of President and Vice President. This is something that needs to be changed before the next elections. It is an absurdity that needs to end! We only have two items of eligibility...age and natural born citizen...and we don’t even require proof of either which could be done with a simple live birth certificate. We waste our time on finding out if someone is wealthier than we are, etc etc...but not if they are eligible under the Constitution (as it now stands).
That is it ... this may be all any Secretary of State in any State uses to confirm eligibility ... read it and weep.
I bet the founders are really, really glad they risked their lives and property for the creation of the United States and the writing of the Constitution. It seems my lab could run for president, as long as she wags her tail well enough to please the democratic party and the NY Times.