Reed is not required and does not have the authority to investigate the qualifications of candidates for president and vice president.
This may or may not be true. I can’t address the law. If it is true, then it begs the question – who IS charged with verifying this? It’s quickly becoming clear that even if Barak Obama is an American citizen by birth, this issue needs to be cleared up in case it ever is a real issue down the road.
One would think a Constitutional scholar would have every interest in being the pivotal player in resolving such an important issue. We’re waiting, Mr. President Elect. It seems to be the standard. It’s not my job and you don’t have standing. The vetting of candidates is apparently conducted by magical elves.
What ever way this turns out, we have got to determine who has standing? who is supposed to do the vetting, how do they go through the vetting process, I do not trust Congress anylonger. They are bunch of self serving, greedy, corrupt individuals. This just may bring us to a Constitutional crisis this country needs. It’s time to clean house.
A group of Washington residents have filed a lawsuit with the state Supreme Court asking the state’s votes for President-Elect Barack Obama be set aside.
James E. Broe, of King County, and 12 others claim Obama never established that he is a natural-born American citizen as required by the Constitution, and that Obama ran under a false name.
A similar suit before the election was dismissed in King County.
Obama is set to receive the state’s 11 electoral votes when the Electoral College delegates meet in Olympia on Dec. 15.
Similar lawsuits have been filed in other states.
Dave Ammons, spokesman for Secretary of State Sam Reed’s office, said in an e-mail to the Herald that the state’s position is that Reed is not required and does not have the authority to investigate the qualifications of candidates for president and vice president.
“Under state law, the Republican and Democratic tickets are automatically placed on the fall ballot after the national party conventions,” Ammons said. “Other tickets can qualify by having 1,000 registered Washington voters sign petitions at conventions. The state Elections Division examines the signatures, but does not investigate the qualifications of the candidates.”
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This is from Mr. Pidgeons website
Summary Of Arguments
December 10, 2008
Broe v. Reed
Washington State Supreme Court
Cause No. 8-2-473-8
http://decalogosintl.org/?p=65
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