My favorite was Missouri. Someone submitted a bill that made it mandatory that candidates show their long form birth certificates. They withdrew the bill when it was pointed out that Missouri only issues short forms.
My favorite was Missouri. Someone submitted a bill that made it mandatory that candidates show their long form birth certificates. They withdrew the bill when it was pointed out that Missouri only issues short forms.
That's the first time I heard the results and reason why about the State of Missouri... interesting.
But, even if they amended it and had whatever was required and produced (for a birth certificate) for anything else -- legally -- why couldn't they have made that change for Missouri and required the same of all candidates there?
Now, the peculiar thing about that -- is that I've read a few posts elsewhere on Free Republic (over the months...) that have said that to get a passport that you have to have a long form birth certificate, while others said no you didn't. And if a state does not issue long form birth certificates -- does that mean that those people in that state (who were born there) cannot get U.S. passports?
Just wondering... :-)
But the legislature could, if they wished, direct that copies of the long form, or their electronic equivalent, be issued to the state election commission, or whomever, perhaps the Secretary of State, at the request of anyone running for office, for which there is a citizenship requirement, Where there is a residency requirement, the candidate should have to produce a list of residences, with dates of residence, to show compliance.
IOW, that was a CYA BS excuse, to allow them to do what they really wanted to do in the first place, that is not require a full and complete birth certificate, that would allow for some independent verification of the information thereon.