[MMaschin]

Many of the replies seem to show a lack of understanding of a basic fundamental of the Georgia law. Even if the judge determines that Obama has not proven that he is eligible for office of President, that DOES NOT mean Obama will not still be on the Georgia ballot.

Under the law, when a challenge is made, a judge is assigned to determine if the candidate is eligible for the office he is running for. The judge is responsible for generating a report on whether or not the candidate is eligible, and sending the report to the SOS. It is the responability of the SOS to then determine if the candidate should be removed from the ballot.

The responsability lies on the SOS to make the final determination of whether or not the candidate should remain on the ballot. The judge is there to generate report to help the SOS.

My fear is that Obama's lawyers will present no evidence at the hearing. The judge will then decide he no longer needs to hear any more arguments(such as Minor v. Happersett), because he already has enough to generate his report. The judge presents a report to the SOS saying that he recommends that Obama is not eligible because the defense presented no evidence. The SOS then says he will allow Obama on the ballot because he believes the BC on Whitehouse.gov is authentic.

[holden]

Remain on the ballot?   Isn’t that “be placed on the ballot”?

The SOS is apparently a Republican, so to conjecture influence to overturn a judge’s recommendation bears the burden of proof, IMHO. To conjecture that his decision would be based on a “belief” unfairly suggests a corruption of the process. Is there more that you “believe” that accounts for all this?

HF