Ken Bennett made a bad decision. Zullo saw it as a political decision to get the media off of him. They were ridiculing him pretty hard. He was desperate and took the bait from Hawaii after they made him change his request wording.
Bennett was just one of fifty-one state and federal district Chief Election Officials who cleared Obama for the ballot in 2008 and in 2012. The Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach also asked for and received a Letter of Verification from Hawaii’s Registrar of Vital Statistics.