Posted 7:40 PM by Gerald Klaas
Alan Keyes has filed a lawsuit in Superior Court to prevent California Secretary of State Debra Bowen from certifying the State's electors until the Secretary verifies the qualifications of candidate Obama. (See Keyes v Bowen, Superior Court, Sacramento) Read it here.

Aside from the question of whether or not president-elect Obama is a natural-born citizen, there are multiple interesting questions here:

• What is the level of due diligence required of our Secretary of State in verifying the qualifications of a candidate?
• Suppose the Secretary is found to have failed to meet this level of due diligence, and is unable to do so before December 15th, is not certifying our electors the appropriate remedy?
• If it's not the duty of individual Secretaries of State to verify a candidate's qualifications, then who does have that controlling authority?
• If there is no controlling authority, then why wasn't Arnold Schwarzenegger on the ballot?

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a pissed-off Republican looking for any reason to disparge our president-elect, I'm actually a Libertarian very intrigued by the question of controlling authority for compliance of government with our Constitution. In my view, there are multiple other instances today where we, the people, look the other way at clear violations of the Constitution. Our Constitution requires presidential candidates to be natural born citizens at least 35 years of age, so if not the Secretary of State for the 50 individual states, then who does have the responsibility to ensure that our presidential candidates are so qualified?

When you can tell me who does have that authority, let me know, there are a few other questions I'd like to ask.............