California Amended Obama Ballot Challenge, Not Just About Obama

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Pamela Barnett, pro se, Petitioner of the Ad Hoc California registered voters with service at 1713 11th Avenue Olivehurst, CA 95961 Telephone: 530-845-5186
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SACRAMENTO

Edward C. Noonan, Pamela Barnett, Sharon Chickering, George Miller, Tony Dolz, Neil Turner, Gary Wilmott Petitioners, v. Debra Bowen individually and officially as The California Secretary of State at 1500 11th Street, 5th 18 Floor Sacramento, CA, 95814; Barack Hussein Obama II; OBAMA FOR AMERICA (CALIFORNIA) at NORTHERN CALIFORNIA HQ 3225 Adeline Street, Berkeley, CA 94703; John and Jane Does and XYZ Entities. Respondents. ______________________________ ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Case No.34-2012-80001048
FIRST AMENDED PREROGATIVE WRIT OF MANDATE and RESTRAINT OF FUND RAISING Date: Time: Dept: Judge: TBD TBD 31 Hon. Michael P. Kenny
Action Filed: January 6, 2012
Petitioners submit Amended Petition in response to new highly credible evidence that will dramatically affect this petition. It is of great public interest to ensure that this
court allows discovery to ensure that our public servants at the highest levels are held accountable in regard to potential election fraud that is now currently underway in the
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2012 California presidential election cycle. Also, an important Appeals court ruling on CEC 13314 was issued March 1 which affects this petition. Petitioner adds the following arguments and information to writ filed January 6, 2011 in this First Amended Prerogative Writ of Mandate and Restraint of Fundraising. Parties and jurisdiction remain the same.
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On September 31, 2011, the CA SOS, Deborah Bowen issued instructions (see Exhibit 1) also available at http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/2012-elections/juneprimary/pdf/dem-president-2012.pdf to any prospective candidate(s) for the Office of POTUS from the Democratic party in preparation for the June 5, 2012 Democratic Primary. And that the CA SOS Instructions at Part 1 Qualification mandated that any candidate for POTUS be eligible for that office according to U.S. Constitution Article 2 Section 1 and specifically meets the quote: I. QUALIFICATIONS Every candidate shall be a natural-born citizen of the United States, at least 35 years of age, and be a resident of the United States for at least 14 years. U.S. Const., art. II, 1 cl. 5 1. That according to the California State Constitution at Article 20 the Oath of office taken
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ARTICLE 20 MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS [ Required Oath of Office ]
[ Source: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/.const/.article_20 ] SEC. 3. Members of the Legislature, and all public officers and employees, executive, legislative, and judicial, except such inferior officers and employees as may be by law exempted, shall, before they enter upon the duties of their respective offices, take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation: "I, ___________________________, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which I am about to enter. (emphasis added) "And I do further swear (or affirm) that I do not advocate, nor am I a member of any party or organization, political or otherwise, that now advocates the overthrow of the Government of the United States or of the State of California by force or violence or other unlawful means; that within the five years immediately preceding the taking of this oath (or affirmation) I have not been a member of any party or organization, political or other-wise, that advocated the overthrow of the Government of the United States or of the State of California by force or violence or other unlawful means except as follows: (emphasis added) (If no affiliations, write in the words "No Exceptions") and that during such time as I hold the office of ____________________________________________ I will not advocate nor become (name of office) a member of any party or organization, political or otherwise, that advocates First Amended Prerogative Writ of Mandate and Restraint of Fundraising Page 2 of 22
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Secretary of State to determine whether President Obama or any other presidential candidate meets the eligibility requirements of the U.S. Constitution; and 2. As far as Petitioner can surmise by reading the code and instructions of the State Legislature and Congress as well as the CA SOS Notice provided to each candidate, shown as Exhibit 1 for the Democrats, is that only Respondent Bowen has the duty as CA SOS under CEC 6041(2) to select the democratic party candidates for the party in the primary as there appears there is no express authority delegated by the CA State Legislature to the Democratic Party per se or any other party for that matter; so it's all of the CA SOS responsibility to create and certify the "the list" of candidates. 3. Petitioner contends that some statutory duties of the California secretary of state are in conflict with regards to verifying eligibility of national presidential candidates as the California Constitution mandates that the Secretary of State uphold her duties which is overseen by the Legislators and Executive to enforce with impeachment. 4. The California Constitution - Article II states:
the overthrow of the Government of the United States or of the State of California by force or violence or other unlawful means." (emphasis added) And no other oath, declaration, or test, shall be required as a qualification for any public office or employment. "Public officer and employee" includes every officer and employee of the State, including the University of California, every county, city, city and county, district, and authority, including any department, division, bureau, board, commission, agency, or instrumentality of any of the foregoing.
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CAEC 6041. The Secretary of State shall place the name of a candidate upon the presidential primary ballot when he or she has determined that the candidate is generally advocated for or recognized throughout the United States or California as actively seeking the nomination of the Democratic Party for President of the United States. The Secretary of State shall include as criteria for selecting candidates the fact of qualifying for funding under the Federal Elections Campaign Act of 1974, as amended. Between the 150th day and the 68th day preceding a presidential primary election, the Secretary of State shall publicly announce and distribute to the news media for publication a list of the selected candidates that he or she intends to place on the ballot at the following presidential primary election. (emphasis added)
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SECTION 5. The Legislature shall provide for primary elections for partisan offices, including an open presidential primary whereby the candidates on the ballot are those found by the Secretary of State to be recognized candidates throughout the nation or throughout California for the office of President of the United States, and those whose names are placed on the ballot by petition, but excluding any candidate who has withdrawn by filing an affidavit of noncandidacy. (emphasis added) 5. To be a recognized candidate the U.S. Constitution, Art II mandates that: No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States. 6. It is a constitutional mandated duty for the Secretary of State to make a determination to place on the ballot only recognized candidates. 7. Petitioner contends that RESPONDENT OBAMA despite the notice provided to Respondent Obama and his agents to comply with California Election Code and the US Constitution as shown as Exhibit 1, Respondent Obama nevertheless admits he is merely on the honor system of self checking his eligibility states in the Demurrer MOL that quote: either President Obama nor his campaign committee have any legal obligation to provide proof of the President's qualifications as a "natural born citizen" to the Secretary of State in order to establish his eligibility to appear on the ballot as a presidential candidate, much less for him to be able to engage in fundraising activities in California. Candidate Obama fails to state which of the duties that the Secretary of State fails to apply to him as would apply to any other candidate in the state running for office for ballot access per the California Elections Code and the U.S. Constitution. Candidate Obama accused of fraud contends there is no check required. Petitioner and American
Independent Candidate Ed Noonan stands ready to prove he was born in the United States to two American citizen parents. In a matter of fair competition Candidate Obama and all other Presidential candidates that seek California ballot access should also prove that he is a Natural Born Citizen as required by Article II, Section 1, Clause 5.
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8. That according to California Law that also dictates the duties the Secretary of State, including the duty as chief elections officer of California, to ensure election laws are followed (California Government Code [hereinafter referred to as CGC] 12172.5), the duty to investigate election fraud (CGC 12172.5), and the duty to advise candidates and local elections officials on the qualifications and requirements for running for office. a. 12172.5. The Secretary of State is the chief elections officer of the state, and shall administer the provisions of the Elections Code. i. The Secretary of State shall see that elections are efficiently conducted and that state election laws are enforced. The Secretary of State may require elections officers to make reports concerning elections in their jurisdictions. ii. If, at any time, the Secretary of State concludes that state election laws are not being enforced, the Secretary of State shall call the violation to the attention of the district attorney of the county or to the Attorney General. In these instances, the Secretary of State may assist the county elections officer in discharging his or her duties. iii. In order to determine whether an elections law violation has occurred the Secretary of State may examine voted, unvoted, spoiled and canceled ballots, vote-counting computer programs, vote by mail ballot envelopes and applications, and supplies referred to in Section 14432 of the Elections Code. The Secretary of State may also examine any other records of elections officials as he or she finds necessary in making his or her determination, subject to the restrictions set forth in Section 6253.5. iv. The Secretary of State may adopt regulations to assure the uniform application and administration of state election laws. (emphasis added) 9. Petitioner contends that CA SOS in order to fulfill her duty to advise candidates, there are several documents on the California Secretary of State website informing all who are seeking elected office as to the qualifications and requirements for each elected position including President of the United States. 10.The Secretary of State has a ministerial duty to verify the eligibility of those who are running for the office of President of the United States in a timely manner under the requirements of CEC 6041 before the party primary; as election of Federal officers is
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done at the state level on a state by state basis under the plenary authority of the respective state legislature as a matter of compelling state interest - no Federal elections are Federal other than by related law.
11.However, regarding the general election, Petitioner contends that CEC 6901 is at odds with remainder of the CA SOSs duties specified in California law before the general election, because this statute directs that the CA SOS must place on the ballot the names of the several political parties candidates. The effect of this statute is that the SOSs duty to ensure compliance with election law is suspended in favor of some other entity that has no statutory duty to ensure the partys candidate meets constitutional qualifications. This law is unconstitutional under the California and U.S. Constitutions as California is mandated to control elections for presidential candidates, not political parties. Election Code Section 6901 Is An Attempt to Avoid Compliance with Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution. The California Constitution provides; "The State of California is an inseparable part of the United States of America, and the United States Constitution is the supreme law of the land." (California Constitution, Article III, 1. Unlike the Petition Keyes v. Bowen brought in 2009, the Petition herein is both timely and laches does not apply; and therefore does not suffer from the same fatal defects of a case filed after the general election as was done in Keyes v. Bowen. This petition also uses CEC 13314 as standing to bring this action.
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the primary to prevent ballot access, and even were the responsibility of the CA SOS in a time-frame held in suspended animation, such is a contradiction to public officer duties under the oath of office, notwithstanding express direction from the Legislature, records
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that Petitioners/Petitioners standing has properly accrued as it was held by the Court in the recent Heidi Fuller v. Debra Bowen, As Secretary of State, Etc., et al, No. C065237 (Cal.App. Dist.3 03/01/2012)[41] We agree with Fuller that it is the judiciary's role to interpret the law, including the Constitution. But as we will explain, our interpretation leads us to the narrow conclusion that it is not the judiciary's role to judge the qualifications and elections of candidates for membership in the Legislature. This interpretation does not invalidate section 13314, however, because the application of that section is not limited to challenging the qualifications and elections of candidates for membership in the Legislature. Moreover, because our interpretation resolves this case, it is unnecessary to reach any other constitutional questions, even if we might have jurisdiction to do so. AND Several California courts have held that the California Constitution deprives courts of jurisdiction to inquire into the qualifications of a candidate-nominee after a primary election. (In re McGee (1951) 36 Cal.2d 592; Allen v. Lelande (1912) 164 Cal. 56.) But no California court has issued an opinion on whether courts have jurisdiction to judge the qualifications of one who seeks to be a candidate at a primary election. AND Courts in other states have concluded that similar provisions are not broad enough to prevent the determination by courts of whether one who seeks to be a candidate at a primary election possesses the requisite qualifications. (See Comber v. Ashe (Tenn. 1974) 514 S.W.2d 730; State ex rel. Gralike v. Walsh (Mo. 1972) 483 S.W.2d 70; State ex rel. McGrath v. Erickson (Minn. 1938) 203 Minn. 390.) This Court agrees. (emphasis added) 15. Statute (Section) 13314 fully supports Petitioners standing to have this
petition heard on the merits and gives this court the full power to grant petitioners prayers for relief even without the State having a ministerial duty unfilled as that is not stated as a requirement for relief to the Petitioners. That prior to March 1, 2012, Petitioners did properly allege inter alia that President Barack Obama is not a "natural born citizen" (NBC) eligible to be President of the United States (POTUS) - not because he was not born in the United States, but because his father was not a U.S. citizen and sought a writ of mandate to compel Secretary of State Bowen to "bar Respondent Obama ballot access in California along with those similarly situated from the 2012 Election cycle
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from forming an elector slate for 'the office of POTUS for California." (Petition for Prerogative Writ of Mandate and Restraint of Fund Raising ("Petition"), @P18.); and further, 16. The Petition does also seek a "permanent restraining order barring Barack
Obama or his campaign committee from fundraising in this election cycle, because Respondent Obama is not NBC eligible for the Office of POTUS, spoliates evidence and committed fraud in conspiracy to avoid detection from investigation of allegiances. 17. That Petitioner contends that Respondent Obama by counsel in the Demurrer
has improperly concluded that Barack Obama is, of course, a natural born citizen, born in the United States to a mother who was an American citizen, and is thus fully qualified to be President under the U.S. Constitution. 18. The allegation proffered by Respondent Obamas counsel in the Demurrer
directly contradicts every historical basis with related law to consider Respondent eligible for Office of POTUS when his minor aged U.S. Citizen mother who was married to a majority aged British subject ineligible for U.S. Citizenship would at best be merely considered Born a Citizen as the assumption required by the 14th Amendment; and 19. That moreover, subsequent to the January 6, 2012 Petition filing, that on
March 1, 2012, the Maricopa County Arizona Sheriffs Press Release (see Exhibit 2) and Press Conference established that there is the Preliminary Report by the Sheriffs COLD
CASE POSSE , as an authority with competent jurisdiction formed to investigate fraud and crimes committed by the campaign of Barack Obama in the filing of an affirmation in 2008 that Respondent Obama affirmed compliance with the U.S. Constitution Article 2 Section 1 Paragraph 5 requirement for eligibility for Natural-born citizen with a picture of the Sheriffs webpage appended (see Exhibit 3) and currently before the Arizona primary
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now in 2012; and that the attached Preliminary Report of the Sheriffs COLD CASE POSSE (see Exhibit 4) supports the suspicion with sufficient evidence that Respondent Barack Obama was not even born in Hawaii between August 1 1961 through August 7 1961 and acts to spoliate evidence of a crime Quote: Investigators advised Sheriff Arpaio that the forgers committed two crimes: first, in creating a fraudulent document which the White House characterized, knowingly or unknowingly, as an officially produced governmental birth record; and second, in fraudulently presenting that document to the residents of Maricopa County and to the American public at large as proof positive of President Obamas authentic 1961 Hawaii long-form birth certificate. During the six-month-long investigation and after having developed probable cause to believe the long-form birth certificate is a computer-generated forgery, investigators began examining other evidence of President Obamas life history including:. President Obamas Selective Service card is most likely also a forgery, revealed by an examination of the postal date stamp on the document;
To quell the popular idea that Obama was actually born outside the United States, we examined the Records of Immigration and Naturalization Service cards routinely filled out by airplane passengers arriving on international flights that originated outside the United States in the month of August 1961. Those records are housed at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. Interestingly, records from the days surrounding Obamas birth, August 1, 1961 to August 7, 1961 are missing. This is the only week in 1961 w[h]ere these immigration cards cannot be found. 20. Further, that according to the Preliminary Report of the COLD CASE POSSE shown as Exhibit 4, the purported Certificate of Live Birth (CoLB) long form (see Exhibit 5) is a forged document as submitted to the entire nation by Respondent Barack Obama and attorneys at his April 27, 2011 at the Washington DC Press Conference according to the transcript (see Exhibit 6); and 21. The Forged document shown as Exhibit 5 also now joins the previously 2008
proffered CoLB short form document that is a forgery as well based upon the admissions of the Respondent Obama and his attorneys there at the White House at the April 27, 2011 press conference . In the transcript shown as Exhibit 6, that at the April 27, 2011
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press conference the White House attorney repeatedly said that Respondent Obama had requested the short form CoLB in 2008 from the State of Hawaii to be released. However, examination by Petitioner of the supposed document Hawaii supposedly released in 2008 is in fact is stamped June 6, 2007 (see Exhibit 7) as shown by the FactCheck.org report on August 21, 2008; and the later as the November 21, 2008 report appended shows the so-called Factcheck.org investigators, depended on by members of Congress and Media, were partisan amateurs according to Eligibility Update: FactCheck.org Doesnt Do Forensics; NH SOS and Certificates; British Policeman on Eligibility, and thereby all the foregoing provides sufficient suspicion of fraud and or statements made as admission against interest as a bar under clean hands doctrine of irrefutable presumption of wrong doing by Respondent Obama and his agents in 2008 and continuing currently. 22. That Petitioner in her January 2, 2009 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
request of the U.S. Department of State (US DOS) and related agency for the passport and travel records of Respondent Obamas mother Stanley Ann Dunham (Obama) (Soetoro) for the period before and after August 4, 1961, received on December 10, 2010 a transmittal of documents certified from the attorney for the U.S. DOS; and on the FS299 Application for renewal dated August 13, 1968 Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro removed Barack Hussein Obama Soebarkah from her subsequent Passport (see Exhibit 8), therein proving that Respondent Obama had been renamed by his adoptive father Lolo Soetoro, the Indonesian Army Lt. Colonel having married Stanley Ann Dunham subsequent to her divorce from Barack Hussein Obama Sr. in 1963; and 23. Further, Petitioner contends that the additional evidence of forgery of the
Selective Service record before the 2008 election along with the theft and tampering of the US DOS Passport records by US DOS private contractor entity under the control of
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John Brennan currently Respondent Obamas White House Counter Terrorism advisor having previously been assistant to Central Intelligence Director George Tenant, and as such underlines the suspicion why the microfilm records from the National Archives are missing now as well, as both agencies are under the direct authority and control of Respondent Obama, the apparent usurper in the office of POTUS, and by his refusal to make such microfilm and the missing U.S. DOS records referenced in the cover letter shown in Exhibit 8 provide the Court herein with substantial direct available proof that Respondent Obama is now directly acting in a continuing pattern to spoliate evidence. 24. As Further evidence, Petitioner provides additional proof that Respondent
Obama, in a continuing pattern acted to spoliate evidence of his adoptive status as an Indonesian citizen and the ramifications that would have on his law license in Illinois and plans to seek the office of US Senator in 2005 and POTUS in 2008, perjured himself on the application for entry to the Illinois bar affirmed he had no other name (see Exhibit 9).
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obligation to vet presidential candidate qualifications and opposes RESPONDENT Obamas contention that members of the U.S. Congress are responsible in vetting Constitutional qualifications for Presidents elect. The is no law that mandates that this happens. Respondent Obama should know as the U.S. Congress never vetted his Constitutional qualifications, in fact letters from Congressmen prove that they were waiting for the judiciary to act, and a video of Clarence Thomas during Congressional testimony has the Justice stating the court is avoiding the constitutional eligibility issue. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmX4F3gW_vY) Respondent Obama then stated that only the Electors of his party can decide if he is qualified. Respondent Obama quotes
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Robinson v. Bowen, (189 Cal. App. 4th at p.661 [supra, 567 F. Supp. 2d at p. 1147]) Therefore, any challenge to President Obamas eligibility to serve as President is committed under the Constitution to the electors and the legislative branch, at least in the first instance. - - not to the Secretary of State or this court. fails to address the fact that Petitioners timely filing before the primary ballot is created renders the contention inapplicable and shoulders the determination for ballot access upon the CA SOS and or the Court herein and that the Congress is not compelled by express law to require proof of eligibility other than implicit in each members oath of office like that of the CA SOS. 26. Petitioner contends that Respondent Obamas contention of authority to
determine eligibility rests with the electoral college is in conflict with the instructions of the California State legislature that such body has no individual elector discretion other than to merely be a vessel to carry a mandatory vote and as such presupposes other powers that do not exist under the U.S. Constitution Article 2 Section 1 paragraph 1
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the President and Vice President are chosen by Electors at the state level independently under a constitutional grant of authority delegated to the legislatures of the several states and the District of Columbia (see Bush v. Gore). The constitution reserves the choice of the precise manner for creating Electors to the will of the state legislatures. It does not define or delimit what process a state legislature may use to create its state college of Electors. In practice, the state legislatures have generally chosen to create Electors through an indirect popular vote, since the 1820s.
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The US Constitution Article 2 Section 1 Clause 2: Method of choosing electors Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector. (emphasis added)
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In an indirect popular vote, it is the names of the electors who are on the
ballot to be elected. Typically, their names are aligned under the name of the candidate for President and Vice President, that they, the Elector, have pledged they will support. It is fully understood by the voters and the Electors themselves that they are the representative "stand-ins" for the individuals to whom they have pledged to cast their electoral college ballots to be President and Vice President. In some states, in past years, this pledge was informal, and an Elector could still legally cast their electoral ballot for whomever they chose. More recently, some state legislatures and the California State legislature (exercising their constitutional authority to do so) of 26 or so have mandated in law that Electors shall cast their electoral college ballot for the Presidential Candidate to whom they are pledged. 28. Petitioner contends as such the State legislature of California has the plenary
authority and duty with which it may delegate responsibility to electors by express law, and is limited as the SCOTUS expressed in McPherson v. Blacker, 146 U.S. 1 (1892), the Court cited Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 which states that a state's electors are selected "in such manner as the legislature thereof may direct" and wrote that these words "operat[e] as a limitation upon the state in respect of any attempt to circumscribe the legislative power." and that based upon information belief does not grant delegation of responsibility as such and may not grant authority to any quasi political party apart from state control and oversight and may not grant such authority without an amendment to the US Constitution; however, at point the legislature does not have authority to relinquish its authority per se in regards to the legislatures election of a candidate for President / Vice President; and a such the legislature shares its authority to determine by assertion of law the responsibility to determine the eligibility to meet the qualifications of
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its candidate be in conformance with precedent and historical practice informing the duties of the Executive along with the Secretary of State as artificial person public officers as defined under State Public Officer law; and therefore, such express or implied instruction along with the actions of public officers as well as the implied powers supposedly granted to the electors are subject to judicial review herein. 29. That Petitioner contends that the Legislature, Judiciary, and Executive are
without authority to write legislation redefining the term Natural Born Citizen as that would require an amendment to the US Constitution Article 2 Section 1 Paragraph 5 as related law 30.
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, and is absent to date as shown by the Letters in Exhibit 10.
Petitioner also contends that an elector who is bound by law in California (as
in 26 others states) to vote only for the person elected in the advisory vote of the electors at the general election is relieved of any discretion in that the candidate must be eligible prior to ballot access; and where the other states the electors may vote for anyone he/she chooses, as such may afford some discretion to determine eligibility. However, there is no binding requirement as a result of the advisory vote of the electors at the primary or general election as in California that has to be followed unless there is a criminal
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US Constitution Article 2 Section 1 Clause 5: Qualifications for office
No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States. By the time of their inauguration, the President and Vice President must be: natural born citizens - person born in the USA of US Citizen parents, Minor v. Happersett 88 U.S. 162. at least thirty-five years old inhabitants of the United States for at least fourteen years. Eligibility for holding the office of President and Vice-President were modified by subsequent amendments: The Twelfth Amendment (1804) requires the Vice-President must meet all of the qualifications of being a President; and The Twenty-second Amendment (1951) prevents a President from being elected more than twice.
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conspiracy to usurp the office of POTUS by design and even as evidence over the last 4 years remains under investigation only in Arizona by one Sheriff with authority Joe Arpaio. 31. Petitioner in light of the evidence herewith contends that for RESPONDENT
Obama to suggest that there is somehow a waiver of the requirements for eligibility just because someone doesnt verify such, still does not change the requirements of eligibility or overcome the requirement to qualify for office, and remains a jackpot situation that automatically vacates the office on its face that then falls back to the individual committing the fraud as a criminal matter to be prosecuted in the respective state, perhaps Arizona; and that the failure to meet the qualification for office of POTUS would automatically incapacitate the attempt of usurpation as void ab initio, and thereby requiring according to Article 2 Section 6 the next person in line with eligibility to meet the qualification
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US Constitution Article 2 Section 1 Clause 6: Vacancy and disability
In Case of the Removal of the President from Office, or of his Death, Resignation, or Inability to discharge the Powers and Duties of the said Office, the Same shall devolve on the Vice President, and the Congress may by Law provide for the Case of Removal, Death, Resignation or Inability, both of the President and Vice President, declaring what Officer shall then act as President, and such Officer shall act accordingly, until the Disability be removed, or a President shall be elected. The wording of this clause caused much controversy at the time it was first used. When William Henry Harrison died in office, a debate arose over whether the Vice President would become President, or if he would just inherit the powers, thus becoming an Acting President. Harrison's Vice President, John Tyler, believed that he had the right to become President. However, many Senators argued that he only had the right to assume the powers of the presidency long enough to call for a new election. Because the wording of the clause is so vague, it was impossible for either side to prove its point. Tyler ended up taking the Oath of Office and became President, setting a precedent that is followed to this day. Tyler's precedent made it possible for Vice Presidents Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, Chester Arthur, Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Harry Truman, and Lyndon Johnson to ascend to the presidency (Gerald Ford took office after the passage of the Twenty-fifth Amendment). Tyler's precedent established that if the President's office becomes vacant due to death, resignation or disqualification, the Vice President becomes President. The Congress may provide for a line of succession beyond the Vice President. The Presidential Succession Act establishes the order as: the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the President pro tempore of the Senate and then the fifteen Cabinet Secretaries in order of that Department's establishment. The Twenty-fifth Amendment explicitly states that when the Presidency is vacant, then the Vice President becomes President. This provision applied at the time Gerald Ford succeeded to the First Amended Prerogative Writ of Mandate and Restraint of Fundraising Page 15 of 22
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That as part of the CA SOS duties to make a determination of eligibility
Respondent SOS Bowen vetted the presidential Constitutional qualifications for ballot access of Peace and Freedom candidates, as shown by copy of the campaign flyer, press release and notarized correspondence regarding denial of ballot access (see Exhibit 11). This is further evidence of arbitrary and capricious action by the CA SOS Bowen in her use of discretion to vet and single out POTUS candidates when they are honest and forth coming with their qualifications according to the CA SOS Notice shown as Exhibit 1 uses the criteria of eligibility against everyone except the democrats and Respondent Obama in particular. Respondent Bowens actions prove that the Secretary of State has the authority, obligation and ministerial duty to enforce the U.S. and California Constitutions and related election law that requires the SOS to enforce election law and prevent fraud on California elections. 33. Petitioner contends that Respondent Obama has improperly used the false
conclusion drawn by the Indiana Court in Ankeny v. Governor of State of Indiana (Ind . App . 2009) 91 6 N.E.2d 678 that was again used by Judge Malihi decision after the 26 January 2012 hearing in Georgia at which sworn testimony on the merits was entered on the record of any court proceeding for the first time since 2008 when the court proceeding started and were systematically blocked for various reasons including lack of standing and being untimely. Petitioner provides the learned legal analysis of Mario Apuzzo Esq., which
Presidency. In case of a Vice Presidential vacancy, the Amendment permits the President to appoint, with the approval of both Houses of Congress, a new Vice President. Furthermore, the Amendment provides that the President, or the Vice President and Cabinet, can declare the President unable to discharge his duties, in which case the Vice President becomes Acting President. If the declaration is done by the Vice President and Cabinet, the Amendment permits the President to take control back, unless the Vice President and Cabinet challenge the President and two-thirds of both Houses vote to sustain the findings of the Vice President and Cabinet. If the declaration is done by the President, he may take control back without risk of being overridden by the Congress.
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proves Ankeny as well as the 14th Amendment and Wong Kim Ark do not make Obama a NATURAL Born citizen as Respondent Candidate Obama contends. They only support that he is a born citizen naturalized by the 14th Amendment. Also, Ankeny did not rule that Candidate Obama is a Natural Born Citizen. In dicta, the Indiana Appeals court put words in the mouths of U.S. Supreme Court justices. This absolutely has no control over California or federal rulings. (see Exhibit 12) dissecting the Malihi Decision, appended thereafter (see Exhibit 13), that relies upon the Indiana decision.
34. That to the best of Petitioners knowledge based upon a recorded message ( 6) by
January 30, 2012 the CA SOS had accepted the candidacy of Barack Obama notwithstanding anything else that has been complained of by Petitioners and others and the CA SOS is acting individually as a partisan Democrat who has instructed her agents to announce the CA SOS acceptance of the Respondent Candidacy and instructed employees to make the following statement by Maxine of the CA SOS calling from:19166537635@vm.vonage.com to: Charles Mallon (16197413139) received Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:53:05 the recording of the message left Jan 30 2012 08:50:25 AM From: ST OF CA SECRET (19166537635) to: Charles Mallon (16197413139) as follows quote: "Hi Mr. Mallon, my name is Maxine and I'm returning your call to Secretary of State's office in Sacramento; and you wanted to find out what, ahh what if any action California might take regarding Georgias ahh, the state of Georgia's challenge, to Barack Obama's eligibility ahh as a presidential candidate; and ahh as far as I understand our office and the state of California has no plans absent to date to take ahh , I believe the state recognizes him as a legitimate citizen, ahh I mean a candidate where that needs to qualifications and that is based on the Democratic partys ahh acceptance of his meeting those qualifications. The Party itself is to accept the candidate prior to nominating him so ahh our office accepts what the party ahh puts forth and has no further involvement, thank you for calling our office and have a great day ,bye bye..
Vonage message for Charles Mallon fron Maxine of the CA SOS office on Janaury 30, 2012:
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That the Georgia hearing that Maxine speaks of was held on January 26,
2012 before Judge Malihi in Atlanta Georgia who on February 3, 2102 rendered a decision shown as Exhibit 13 now on appeal, and with the entire proceeding video of sworn testimony at http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Uuxq1i_CX-w 36. The Sworn Witness John Sampson as an expert witness, retired INS False
Document Special Investigator at the January 26, 2012 hearing when asked if he would have issued an arrest warrant of Barack Obama as a person having filed falsified documents to the government based upon what the witness has seen said YES! 37. That on February 28, 2012, Respondent Obama was added to the list of
Generally Recognized Presidential Candidates in California, notwithstanding his fraud spoliation and concealment activities now under investigation in Arizona (see Exhibit 14). 38. That to the extent that CA SOS has not investigated the charges of
spoliation, concealment, false swearing, fraud that are all matters required as a duty under California Election Code the Petition does not fail to State a Cause of Action against the Secretary of State who has acted individually ultra vires in a partisan manner in violation of her oath of office and charge given to her by the state of California. 39. There is no basis in law without sworn affidavits and substantive proof that a
candidate being submitted by the respective party that the candidate has been duly vetted and meets the criteria of the eligibility requirements under the State and Federal constitution and related law, including prior precedents of the SCOTUS that must be considered by the court, in that the Secretary of State has done the minimum due diligence to protect both the interest of the state and people who are to vote.
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The SOS has failed to vet the Constitutional qualifications of Candidate
Obama in 2008 and currently. Two of the Petitioners (Turner and Barnett) sued SOS Bowen in 2009 in Lightfoot v. Bowen after the election but were denied a hearing on the merits. Petitioner, based upon the foregoing evidence and law underlying the requirement for a prospective candidate, state agents are culpable for misdirection and concealment associated with the ongoing fraud to usurp the office of POTUS again, is a compelling state interest in each state of the several states and District of Columbia that conduct the respective individual elections for their respective state representative to the Federal Executive and Congress accordingly. Presidential ballot access has been relegated by Congress to be resolved in each state and the Judiciary when timely as herein notwithstanding the mirage of remedy purported to be available at the federal level is an arbitrary matter without force of law except that found in the respective state. This is illustrated by the Supreme Courts reluctance in the past, because no state until Georgia has ever had a hearing on the merits of Candidate Obamas eligibility. There are questions of Rick Santorum and Mit Romneys eligibility, but petitioners do not have the same admission against interest that Candidate Obama has made regarding his foreign birth father. In summary; a. That Petitioners having filed January 6, 2012 are as timely as any of the respective candidates and therefore are properly accrued for hearing on the merits and remedy fashioned based upon the authority granted to this court and that laches does not apply and relief is available. b. Petitioners' claims are not barred by the doctrine of laches when in fact the Decision
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to place the Democratic Candidate on the Primary ballot was only reached on February 28, 2012 and arbitrarily contrary to the duty to hear complaints and conduct investigation of crimes being conducted and having been conducted that Respondent Obama and his agents including the California entity of Obama for America were properly served and named, have unclean hands and have made admissions against interest regarding the so-called birth place and both the 2007 stamped and 2011 stamped alleged birth certificates are false and forgeries. Based upon evidence the CA SOS and it employees ignored administrative election complaints by petitioners as a matter of partisan basis in violation the their oath of office as public officers to served and protect the sanctity of the ballot, and that the references made by Respondent Obama that the California Democratic Party must be added as a nunc pro tunc Respondent Defendant herein as a matter of record compelling state interest for this court to hear as a matter of the evidence presented on an expedited discovery and hearing schedule. Although the Democratic primary is moot as there is only one candidate, nevertheless it must be resolved so as to provide the Democratic Party opportunity to fill the vacancy with a legitimate eligible candidate or otherwise would be un assigned at the National convention from the state of California in August 2012. 41. That Petitioner has not requested this relief previously as the new evidence
has just become available, and as such must be considered by the this court as compelling reason for there to be a expedited hearing on the merits of the forged document, false filing by the agents of Respondent Obama and the Partisan activities of a public officer(s) to assist in fraud and continued spoliation of the public record find that
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Respondent Obama is not eligible to appear on the Democratic Primary ballot starting no later than March 29, 2012 for the schedule June 5, 2012 California primary elections. CONCLUSION For the foregoing reasons based upon new evidence submitted herein, and because there is no express provision of law that directs U.S. Congress and/or electors of the electoral college for California and/or a political party the duty to determine POTUS candidate Constitutional eligibility, the issue of Presidential eligibility remains a plenary matter to be determined by the State Legislature under the U.S. Constitution Article 2 Section 1 paragraph 2. Therefore, the State may not relinquish the authority and responsibility it has to determine ballot configuration and candidate access. The Respondent SOS has exercised this duty with the Peace and Freedom Candidate Peta Lindsay by barring her from the ballot because she does not meet the Constitutional qualification of age as required under Article II, Section 1 as she is only 27 and needs to be 35. If Respondent SOS fails to act in this inherent State duty regarding Obama and those similarly situated, the Court is empowered, otherwise with original jurisdiction under CEC 13314 to make a determination of qualification when there is sufficient evidence and proof of a fraud. The PETITIONERS have established that the Secretary of State has a ministerial duty to verify a candidates eligibility. This Amended petition is required because on January 6, 2012 Petitioners evidence that Barack Obama was at least Born a Citizen under the 14th Amendment definition rather than a natural-born Citizen, with a British subject father already established, and on March 1, 2012 is proven wrong by the COLD CASE POSSE Preliminary Report that the same 2012 CoLB is forged that raises suspicion that Barack Obama is not even Born a Citizen in the USA per se; and further, supported by evidence of falsification, spoliation,
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concealment of records, admissions against interest under POTUS control that substantiates need for ordering expedited interim discovery for expedited evidentiary hearing on the merits as California is within the primary calendar time for the Presidential election of 2012. WHEREFORE, PETITIONERS respectfully pray that this Court: 1. Issue a Peremptory Writ for Stay of BOWEN ballot printing until further order; 2. Enjoin BOWEN from placing the names of candidates who have failed to so prove their eligibility on the 2012 California Presidential primary election ballot; 3. Bar Barack Obama from the California Primary Ballot until he release the August 1, 1961 through August 7, 1961 travel microfilm;
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4. Mandate that BOWEN require all candidates for the office of President of the United States provide sufficient proof of eligibility prior to approving their names for the ballot; 5. Bar Barack Obama from the California Primary Ballot until he provides evidence which proves that he is a natural-born Citizen born in the U.S.A. of U.S. Citizen parents; 6. Find California Elections Code 6901 to be unconstitutional and unenforceable; 7. For attorneys fees under CCP 1021.5, and; 8. Grant PETITIONERS such other and further relief as the Court deems just and proper
________________________ Pamela Barnett ______________ Date Sacramento, CA
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CASE #34-2012-80001048 EXHIBIT 1
Summary of
Qualifications and Requirements for the Office of
UNITED STATES PRESIDENT

DEMOCRATIC PARTY
June 5, 2012, Presidential Primary Election
I. QUALIFICATIONS Every candidate shall be a natural-born citizen of the United States, at least 35 years of age, and be a resident of the United States for at least 14 years. U.S. Const., art. II, 1 cl. 5 II. REQUIREMENTS There are two methods by which a person may have his or her name placed on the ballot as a
presidential candidate in the June 5, 2012, Presidential Primary Election:
by the Secretary of State as a generally-recognized candidate, or by circulating nomination petitions. A. GENERALLY-RECOGNIZED CANDIDATES 1. The Secretary of State announces the names of individuals she has determined to be generally advocated for or recognized throughout the United States or California as actively seeking the nomination of the Democratic Party for President. 60411 Other criteria the Secretary of State may use to determine who is a generally-recognized candidate includes, but is not limited to: a. Qualifying for federal matching funds, b. Appearing in presidential public opinion polls, candidates forums, or debates, c. Being on other states primary ballots as a presidential candidate, d. Actively campaigning in California for the presidency, e. Having a campaign office in California, and f. Advice and input from the chairs of the respective state parties. 2. Between January 7, 2012* (E-150) and March 29, 2012 (E-68), the Secretary of State will publicly announce this determination. 6041
All code references are to the California Elections Code unless otherwise stated. 09/30/2011
Qualifications and Requirements Presidential Nomination Democratic Party June 5, 2012, Presidential Primary Election
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3. The last day a candidate may withdraw from the list of candidates to be certified by the Secretary of State is March 29, 2012 (E-68). 6042, 6043 B. CIRCULATION OF NOMINATION PETITIONS FOR CANDIDATES NOT SELECTED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE OR UNCOMMITTED DELEGATIONS 1. Any candidate not selected by the Secretary of State or any uncommitted delegation desiring to be placed on the presidential primary election ballot shall have nomination papers circulated on behalf of the candidacy. 6061 2. To qualify for placement on the Presidential Primary Election ballot, the nomination papers of the candidate or uncommitted delegation must be signed by voters who have selected a preference with the Democratic Party equal in number to not less than one percent or 500, whichever is fewer, in each congressional district of the number of persons who have selected a preference with the Democratic Party in the Report of Registration issued by the Secretary of State on January 22, 2012* (E-135). 6061 3. Each signer of a nomination paper may sign only one paper. The signer shall print his or her name, indicate his or her place of residence, and declare his or her intention to support the candidate or delegation named on the nomination paper. 6104 4. Each section of the nomination paper shall be delivered to the elections official of the county where the petition was circulated. 6101 5. The period for circulating the nominating petitions is January 27, 2012 (E-130) through March 24, 2012* (E-73). 6101, 6122 6. The last day to file nomination papers with the county elections official is March 24, 2012* (E-73). 6122 7. No later than March 29, 2012 (E-68), the Secretary of State shall prepare a certified list containing the name of each candidate who is entitled to be voted for on the ballot at the Presidential Primary Election, and the name of each chairperson of a steering committee of an uncommitted delegation who is to be voted for on the same ballot. 6180
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III. APPOINTMENT OF STEERING COMMITTEES A. Each unselected candidate and each group proposing an uncommitted delegation is required to appoint a seven-member steering committee and shall appoint one of the members to serve as chairperson. 6080 B. The chairperson of the steering committee, no later than March 15, 2012 (E-82), shall file with the Secretary of State a statement containing the names and addresses of the members of the committee. 6081 C. Each steering committee shall be responsible for the circulation of nomination papers of unselected candidates and groups proposing uncommitted delegations. 6082 IV. GENERAL INFORMATION A. The California Elections Code contains various requirements that must be met by anyone planning to run as a presidential candidate for the Democratic Party. Prospective candidates and delegates should review these laws well in advance of the June 5, 2012, Presidential Primary Election. For further information, the candidate is advised to consult California Elections Code section 6000, et seq. This code is available on the Internet at the Legislative Counsel's website at www.leginfo.ca.gov/calaw.html. B. Prospective candidates and delegates should contact the California Democratic Party at 1401 21st St., #200, Sacramento, California, 95811, for additional duties and responsibilities not specified in the Elections Code or items not filed with either the Secretary of State or county elections officials. C. The Elections Division of the Secretary of State's office does not provide forms for presidential candidates. D. Because of the requirements of the Federal Election Campaign Act, As Amended, a presidential candidate should contact the Federal Election Commission at 999 E Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20463, or call toll-free (800) 424-9530 for a copy of the Act, related regulations giving the filing requirements for reporting campaign contributions, and the forms on which to file. E. No filing fee shall be required from any person in order to file nomination papers. IMPORTANT NOTICE This information sheet of presidential candidate qualifications and requirements is for general information only and does not have the force and effect of law, regulation, or rule. In case of conflict, the law, regulation, or rule will apply. The candidate should obtain the most up-to-date information available because of possible changes in law. 6146
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CASE #34-2012-80001048 EXHIBIT 2
SHERIFF ARPAIO RELEASES PRELIMINARY FINDINGS ON OBAMA BIRTH CERTIFICATE

Arpaio suspects forgery
March 1, 2012 (Phoenix, AZ) Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio in a press conference today told
reporters, A six month long investigation conducted by my cold case posse has lead me to believe there is probable cause to believe that President Barack Obamas longform birth certificate released by the White House on April 27, 2011, is a computergenerated forgery. I do not believe that it is a scan of an original 1961 paper document, as represented by the White House when the long-form birth certificate was made public. This is the principle preliminary finding of a six-month on-going Sheriffs Cold Case Posse law enforcement investigation into the authenticity of Obamas birth certificate and his eligibility to be president. Investigators advised Sheriff Arpaio that the forgers committed two crimes: first, in creating a fraudulent document which the White House characterized, knowingly or unknowingly, as an officially produced governmental birth record; and second, in fraudulently presenting that document to the residents of Maricopa County and to the American public at large as proof positive of President Obamas authentic 1961 Hawaii long-form birth certificate. During the six-month-long investigation and after having developed probable cause to believe the long-form birth certificate is a computer-generated forgery, investigators began examining other evidence of President Obamas life history including:.
100 West Washington, Suite 1900, Phoenix, Arizona 85003 Phone: (602) 876-1801 Fax: (602) 258-2081
Media Contact: MediaRequest@MCSO.Maricopa.Gov
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President Obamas Selective Service card is most likely also a forgery, revealed by an examination of the postal date stamp on the document; To quell the popular idea that Obama was actually born outside the United States, we examined the Records of Immigration and Naturalization Service cards routinely filled out by airplane passengers arriving on international flights that originated outside the United States in the month of August 1961. Those records are housed at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. Interestingly, records from the days surrounding Obamas birth, August 1, 1961 to August 7, 1961 are missing. This is the only week in 1961 were these immigration cards cannot be found.
When and Why Sheriffs investigators became involved In August 2011, 250 members of the Surprise Arizona Tea Party, residents of Maricopa County, presented a signed petition asking Sheriff Arpaio to undertake this investigation. The Tea Party members petitioned under the premise that if a forged birth certificate was utilized to obtain a position for Barack Obama on the 2012 Arizona presidential ballot, their rights as Maricopa County voters could be compromised. Sheriff Arpaio agreed to accept the investigation and assigned it to his Cold Case Posse at no expense to the tax payers for a thorough examination. The Sheriffs Cold Case Posse, consisting of former law enforcement officers and lawyers with law enforcement experienced, spoke to dozens of witness and examined hundreds of documents, and took numerous sworn statements from witnesses around the world.
Additional findings by investigators
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Suspecting that the long form birth certificate is a computer generated forgery, they now say they have identified persons of interest in the case. Sheriffs Investigator Mike Zullo says, We have also determined during the course of our investigation that the Hawaii Department of Health engaged in what we believe is a systematic effort to hide any original 1961 birth records that they may have in their possession. Sheriff Arpaio added, A continuing investigation is needed to not only understand more about the creation of the alleged birth certificate forgery, but also to determine who, if anyone, in the White House or the state of Hawaii may have authorized it. The Matter of the Selective Service Registration Card Sheriffs Investigators were then led to investigate Presidents Obama selective service registration card allegedly filled out in Hawaii in 1980. Investigators compared Obamas card to others filled out in same year and to at least two cards filled out in the same local. The year stamp that is used on selective service registration cards should include all four digits of the year, for example 1980, the year Obama may have registered with selective service. However, investigators note that Obamas registration card is highly unusual having a year stamp including only two digits, 80 which appears to be an inverted number. Additionally, those numbers are offset by a significant amount suggesting that the stamp was somehow manually manipulated.
Investigators use video presentations to back up the evidence The Cold Case Posse produced six technical videos to demonstrate why the Obama long-form birth certificate is suspected to be a computer-generated forgery. The videos were designed to display the testing used by the investigators to examine
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various claims made when the April 27 document was posted on the White House website for public dissemination. The videos consisted of step-by-step computer demonstrations using a control document.
They also illustrate point-by-point the investigators conclusion that the features and anomalies observed on the Obama long-form birth certificate were inconsistent with features produced when a paper document is scanned, even if the scan of the paper document had been enhanced by Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and optimized. Additionally, the videos demonstrated that the Hawaii Department of Health Registrars name stamp and the Registrars date stamp were computer-generated images imported from an unknown source into an electronic document, as opposed to actual rubber stamp imprints inked by hand or machine onto a paper document. The fact that we were able to cast reasonable suspicion on the authenticity of the Registrar stamps is especially disturbing, since these stamp imprints are designed to provide government authentication to the document itself, Zullo said. If the Registrar stamps are forgeries, then the document itself is a forgery. As I said at the beginning of the investigation, Arpaio said, the President can easily put all of this to rest. All he has to do is demand the Hawaii Department of Health release to the American public and to a panel of certified court-authorized forensic examiners all original 1961 paper, microfilm, and computer birth records the Hawaii Department of Health has. Arpaio further stressed the Hawaii Department of Health needs to provide, as part of the full disclosure, evidence regarding the chain of custody of all Obama birth records, including paper, microfilm, and electronic records, in order to eliminate the possibility that a forger or forgers may have tampered with the birth records. Absent the authentic Hawaii Department of Health 1961 birth records for Barack Obama, there is no other credible proof supporting the idea or belief that this President was born in Hawaii, or in the United States for that matter, as he and the White House have consistently asserted, Arpaio said.
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Conclusive remarks Sheriff Arpaio stresses that these are preliminary findings and concluded by suggesting a Congressional investigation might be warranted. Arpaio asked that any other law enforcement agency with information referencing this investigation be forwarded to his office. I want to make this perfectly clear. I am not accusing the sitting President of the United States of committing a crime. But there remain a lot of questions which beg for answers and we intend to move forward with this investigation in pursuit of those answers, hopefully with the cooperation of all parties involved, Arpaio said.
Links to the Videos Used during the press conference are below.
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CANDIDATE NOMINATION PAPER
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to be held on the 5th day of February 2008.
I am a natural born citlzen of the United ~ts/tes, at least thirty-five years of age, and am have been a resident within the United States for at least fourteen years.
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CASE #34-2012-80001048 EXHIBIT 4
REPORTBARACK OBAMA: LONG FORM BIRTH CERTIFICATE

Opening Statement:
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I, Mara Zebest, am preparing this report at the request of Maricopa County Sheriff s Office in support of the Cold Case Posse investigation. The PDF birth certificate document released by the White House (shown in Figure1) is a completely manufactured and fabricated computer generated image. The same source file was used to print a copy handed to the AP (shown in Figure2), in which the AP scanned in the version handed to them. A third photograph version (Figure3) was touted by Savannah Guthrie who claimed to have held and felt the seal on the document, but the original Internet posted images have been scrubbed. The White House wants us to believe the PDF document started out in printed form on security paper retrieved from Hawaiibut this is not possible. All three versions manifest itself as a printed document only when the PRINT button is pressed from within the original manufactured document file. This would account for the transformation of a document containing different color backgrounds, and the ability to print with or without safety paper pattern (by turning a layer on or off ).
Green safety paper background
There is no doubt in my mind that this computer generated image never started out as a paper source document and was never scanned in as described by the White Houseit was digitally created and manufactured. The bulk of this report will explain the evidence to support this, which will include the following points:
Figure1: PDF file released from White House
Inconsistencies within text characters: All anti-aliased text (in a color scan), or all bitmapped text (in a black & white scan) not a mixture of both which is impossible in a legitimate document. Image noise should also be consistent throughout. Chromatic aberration absent: A color scanned document would display chromatic aberration. This is physics and occurs in all color scans but is absent in Obamas PDF document. Layers: A normal scan is a flat file and does not contain multiple layers. The Obama PDF contains 9 layers and grouped to a clipping mask layer. Links: Indicate that components were pasted into the file, rotated, and resized. Clipping Mask Path hides image information: Proof of manipulation. Safety paper and white halo: Manufactured in final steps.
Blue background color and no safety paper
Safety paper background with a gray/blue color
Figure2: A printout was given to AP which they scanned
Figure3: Savannah Guthrie photo claim to verify document
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The OCR Argument Not a Factor!

OCRwhich stands for Optical Character Recognitionwill scan a document for text and convert any images of text to live (editable) text. After OCR is applied to a PDF in Adobe Acrobat Pro, the text responds as if it is in a Word document. The OCR text can be selected, changed, copied and pasted. The Obama PDF document as downloaded cannot be edited in the aforementioned manner. Note: Adobe Acrobat Pro has PDF editing functions, but Adobe Acrobat Reader does not. Additionally, if the PDF had been scanned using OCR software; one would be able to search the document with keywords and if the text exists in the document, then those keywords would be found. Figure4 shows the keyword Live typed in the FIND box, and even though the word Live exists in the Certificate of Live Birth title, a dialog box responds that no matches were found.
Search word in Find box
No text found in file
Figure4: Search for text is not recognizedNo OCR applied
When viewing the font properties dialog box in Figure5, no fonts are listed. If OCR was used, the image area would be converted to recognized fonts in the document and the fonts would be listed. The dialog box is empty, indicating that Obamas PDF file does not recognize any text. This dialog box can be viewed by going to the File menu > Properties, then click on the Font tab in the Document Properties dialog box. Font-based text can be created after a file has been processed through the OCR Text Recognition feature in Adobe Acrobat. To run the OCR feature, go to the Document menu and select OCR Text Recognition, and then click Recognize Text Using OCR. Acrobat will then perform a scan on the document and convert any text found in the image to editable text. Note that applying OCR Text Recognition will alter the appearance of the characters in the conversion from image to text. Figure6 shows that all the fonts recognized during the process are now listed in the Font Properties dialog box. Figure7 shows another search (after OCR is applied) on the keyword Live typed in the FIND box. The word Live is found and highlighted within the Certificate of Live Birth title.
Document Font Properties of original PDF file
Figure5: Font Properties of Obamas PDF file
Search word in Find box Document Font Properties after OCR Text Recognition
Text found in OCR file
Figure6: Font Properties dialog after OCR Text Recognition
Figure7: Search for text is recognized after OCR is applied

Introduction to Basic Terms
Paint strokesno noise
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Lets briefly examine three terms related to graphic programs: Noise, Anti-aliasing, and Bitmap
Noise v No Noise
Scanned images will have a consistent noise. Any inconsistencies in noise would be a strong telltale sign of tampering. When looking at an image at a normal zoom level (100%) colors may appear as one color of any particular area of an image. Zooming in closer to the area, consistent noise is easily apparent in the slight variations of color from neighboring pixels that make up each color (shown in Figure8). This is the natural noise level for this image. Note that it is consistent throughout the image; variations can be seen for neighboring pixels of each color area in the original image. In contrast, Figure8 also shows an example of no noise as a result of digital manipulation. Two pixels were sampled to match colors within the image. Using a paint brush tool in Adobe Photoshop, a streak of each sampled color is drawn across the image area. Clearly the lack of noise in the digital brush strokes is inconsistent with natural noise of the image. Components added digitally to an image do not contain noise. All neighboring pixels for the sample paint strokes in Figure8 are solid in color with no variationnot even the slightest of variations. In order to avoid detection when editing an image, an experienced professional will need to mimic the noise to match the document. One common method used is to access the Add Noise filter found on the Photoshop Filter menu. This was not done in the Obama PDF file. If this was a legitimate color scan, noise would be consistently displayed throughout the entire document.
Image noise
Figure8: Painted brush strokes in digital scan lack noise
Bitmap (or Aliasing) v Anti-aliasing

Figure9 offers a visual explanation of aliasing (or bitmap text) contrasted with anti-aliasing. Notice that aliasing is the visual stair-stepping of edges that occurs in an image which yields a jagged edge. Anti-aliasing is the smoothing of jagged edges in digital images by averaging the colors of the pixels at the boundary edges. Also notice the transition of pixel colors that occur in Figure8 where contrast colors bump up next to each other. This color transition (averaging of color pixels) makes the lines appear smooth when viewed at a normal viewing level. Without anti-aliasing to soften this line edge transition of colors, images will have a choppy jagged edge quality (aliasing or bitmapped quality). Anti-aliasing is either applied globally (to an entire image) during scanningor not at all.
Noise
Figure9: Aliasing (or bitmap) and anti-aliasing

No noise
Figure10 is a perfect example of an inconsistency that occurs with image manipulation. The numerical characters 064 seen in the Figure are all aliased or bitmapped, and the 1 is anti-aliased as well as containing noise. A color scan would produce anti-aliased results universally. While it is possible to use a bitmap setting when scanning, the results would create a black and white imageno color present. A bitmap setting would turn every pixel to on or offwhite or black. So if a bitmap setting was used in a scan, then there shouldnt be a color background, along with varying colors in the text outside the grayscale range? All text color values have green tone valuesnot black or grayscale.
Bitmap edges are jagged
Anti-aliased edges are smooth
Figure10: Bitmap edges are jagged v smooth anti-aliased edge

Scanner Chromatic Aberration
Cool blue color at the upper edges
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What is chromatic aberration? This occurs when different wavelengths of light are refracted differently as it goes through a lens or prism during the scanning process. Light is refracted differently as the scanner encounters one side of a contrasting color (particularly with text) compared to the opposite side of the contrasting color. In simpler terms, Figure11 is an example of Chromatic Aberration in which the scanner produced warm red-ish color values at the bottom and left edges of the text, and similarly the scanner produced cool blue-ish color values around the top and right edges of text transitions. Chromatic Aberration can be seen at a high zoom level in color scans such as the AP version of Obamas BCbut this chromatic aberration is NOT present in Obamas PDF released by the White House. Because the AP version displays chromatic aberration, this is an indicator that the AP did receive a printed hard copy of the BC from the White House and scanned whatever was presented to them. AP did not do anything wrong. They simply scanned what was handed to them. Its important to note that the AP version does NOT have a security safety paper background pattern, but rather a baby blue colored background. This sudden difference in background color/pattern is another inconsistency that could NOT happen if the document was simply scanned with no further manipulation and released by the White Housebut this inconsistency would only happen if the White House document is a manufactured file.
Warm red color at the lower edges
Figure11: Scanned text and Chromatic Aberration
Noise, anti-aliasing, bitmap inconsistency in textand no chromatic aberration
Figure12: Obama PDF viewed in Acrobat at 1600% zoom level

Color variation evidence of manipulation
Applying the Terms Reviewed

A key problem with the document, as presented, is that it is riddled with inconsistencies. Scanning a document without manipulation produces an image with qualities that are consistent globally (throughout the entire image). Amateurish image manipulation will reveal local (specific areas) of inconsistencies or odd artifacts. Another example of anti-aliased text containing noise for the letter R mixed with surrounding bitmap text in Figure12. The white halo effect surrounding the text with no chromatic aberration is also a strong indicator that the document was manipulated (more on the white halo later). Figure13 displays text color inconsistencies in dates, along with a misspelling in the official stamp textTXE instead of THE. While it may be argued that the misspelling is merely a function of the stamp ink applied unevenly, the odds significantly decrease that this would occur on both vertical bars that affect both sides of the H character. Both sides pull in substantially displaying an X. The stamp also sports suspicious markings in the Alvin signature that has been referred to as a happy face. Figure14 offers a contrast image of Alvin Onakas stamp in which the words are spelled correctly and no happy face markings in the Alvin signature. The Ph. spacing between the P and h is different in both signature images (the period spacing as well). Also, the stamp version displayed in Figure13 is a solid bitmap layerno signs of texture (ink stamp on paper) can be detected. Some semblance of texture would be reflected in an image scan (even with optimization applied), but this overall quality of texturethe ink stamp on paper as seen in Figure14is absent from the Obama PDF.
Alvins signature suddenly develops a smiley face Spelling error on stamp Green text color values
Figure13: Examples of text inconsistencies

No spelling error
Alvins signature without smiley face?
Figure14: http://factcheck.org/2008/08/born-in-the-usa/
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Layers: Flat, Man-made, and Optimized

Attempts to suggest optimization explains the presence of layers in the Obama PDF is simply not true. While it is true that optimization can cause layers, it is not true that optimization explains the layers displayed in Obamas PDF. The layers in Obamas PDF clearly display a decision-making process that would be present with image manipulation. A simple definition for optimization is a process that applies suitable compression settings to reduce file size. As statedoptimization can cause layersbut in the case of optimization; the process of how the document is layered is completely computer-generated based on programming algorithms. Thus, there are certain predictable patterns. Before examining the Figures, it might help to explain that there are two types of graphic programs: Raster-based and Vector-based. Raster-based is a fancy word for pixel-based which is the strength of a program like Adobe Photoshop. Whereas Adobe Illustrator is a vector-based programmeaning it relies on mathematical interpretations. Illustrator operates differently than Photoshop in that lines or shapes drawn in Illustrator are referred to as pathsthe mathematical equations that define the line, line segment, or shape. With this in mind, when a pixel-based image is opened in Illustrator, a path is generated to define the outer boundary border of that object. This is why you will see sub-layers in the screen capture Figures with a Path title that corresponds to the visible blue (default color) rectangle-shaped border edges of an object (in the displayed image). The AP file version of Obamas PDF in Figure15 will serve to represent a scanned document and when opened in Illustrator, there is only one link, and one layer; the layer breaks down to display the following sub-layers:
Multiple links
Layer 1 includes the following sub-layers:
Outside border edge boundary path One flat image layer
One Link One flat image
Outside border Path
Figure15: Normal one-layer scan document behavior
Clipping Path layer
Multiple sub-layers
Outside border path Clipping Path
boundary edge Paththe blue border surrounding the image A And the flattened Image Figure16 shows a crucial difference in the number of layers displayed in Obamas PDF file (compared to the AP file): Obamas PDF has nine links and nine sub-layers (NOTE: The paths are actively displayed in the image). In addition to the nine sub-layer objects, a clipping path is at the top of the sub-layer list. The clipping path groups all the remaining sub-layers below. Note the location of the clipping path in the image, which will be explained further on the next page. Its presence within the file and applied in a manner to hide portions of the image also reflects image manipulation.
Scroll box
Figure16: Multiple layers and links in Obamas PDF
One bitmap sub-layer at top No logic to layer object decisions
Another crucial difference in the number of layers occurs when optimization is applied to the AP scanned image in Figure17. There is an unreasonable amount of layers generated. Note despite resizing the Links and Layers panels, there is still a scroll box which scrolls the length of the empty scrolling bar area (to offer a sense of how many layers extend beyond the current view). Examine how the layers divide the image into pieces. It is analogous to taking a scissor and cutting the image into random rectangles.
Huge amount of links Scroll box Insane number of color sub-layers
Figure17: AP layers and links after optimization is applied
Finally, notice that Figure17 calls out the top layer as a bitmap layer (which means it contains one color value only), while all remaining layers are color layers (contains multiple color values). One bitmap layer and multiple color layers are typical optimization behavior; but the reverse is true in Obamas PDF in which it contains multiple bitmap layers and only one color layer.

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The Clipping Mask Path

Lets return to the previously mentioned Clipping Mask Path. The term mask refers to defining parts of an image to be hidden from view (rather than have to delete unwanted parts). Any vector shape can be used as a clipping pathin this case the rectangle path shape seen in Figure18 defines an area that acts like a window: Anything within the shape border is visible, and anything that falls outside its boundary is not visible. A benefit derived from using a clipping mask is it allows the mask to be reposition at any time to show or hide different parts of the artwork. A clipping mask that hides image information from view only occurs in a manual process to manipulated a document. If a clipping mask is generated in an optimized fileit will never hide information. Figure18 displays the clipping mask as the only visible path when the Obama PDF is first openedall other path objects behave as a group attached to the clipping path. To move and see these objects separatelythe clipping mask group needs to be releasedor ungrouped. Figure19 shows an open Layers panel (to display the sub-layers). A right-click inside the clipping mask offers a menu option to Release Clipping Mask. Notice that releasing this path not only exposes the other grouped path objects, but suddenly uncovers additional background pattern that spills outside (and beyond) the clipping mask path boundaryproof of image manipulation.
Collapsed icon
Clipping Path
Figure18: Obama PDF opened in Illustrator with clipping mask

Release Clipping Mask Group
Expand icon Clipping Path
X-Ray Scanner Vision

Figure19: Clipping Mask group released and sub-layers displayed
First link actively selected Layer visibility on
Tom Harrison, a software designer, published a report that examines the top two sub-layer objects. Without a doubt, the implications of these two sub-layers are clear indications of image manipulation. This cannot happen in a normal document. At first glance these layers appear to be emptybut this is not the case. These layers contain odd random white pixel information, while the pixels under the white dots show no disturbance of safety paper pattern (on the bottom layer). This is simply not possible in a normal scan and can only happen in image manipulation. Tom Harrison offers the following analogy in his report: Try to have someone take a picture of a person holding a football hidden behind their back, not visible to the camera. Will you ever be able to extract the person from the photograph and still see the football revealed? Of course not. However, if a picture is taken of a football, and a separate picture is taken of the person, layers can be used to hide the picture of the football behind the person (using a program like Photoshop). By placing the picture of a person on a layer in front ofor on topof the layer containing the football in the documentthe football would not be visible to the casual viewer unless the layer of the person is turned off. Using the football analogy, look closely at Figure20a close-up view to reveal numerous white pixels in the top layer object. Additionally, these pixels are bitmapped rather than displaying a soft blending quality to transition into the background pattern another indication that the white pixels are not a normal part of the background pattern. Figure21 shows the white dot layer turned off to expose the undisturbed safety pattern in the background (under the white pixel dots). To paraphrase Mr.Harrison, no scanner in the world has x-ray vision that can detect uninterrupted safety paper pattern under another object (such as the random white dots).
Layer object path White pixels display
Top layer selected
Figure20: Zoom view of top layer reveals white pixels

First link deselected Layer visibility off
Layer object path turned off White pixels disappear: Pattern pixels uninterrupted
Figure21: Layer turned off reveals uninterrupted pattern below

Selected active links
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Stamp Layer Appearance

The main purpose and strength of layers is they allow parts of an image to be isolated to make it easy to repositioned, or adjust visibility (on or off) independently of surrounding image layered partsthus layers are a powerful image manipulation tool. It makes sense to have a date and a certification stamp on separate layersto move, rotate, or reposition for the purpose of manipulation and alteration. Figures 2224 demonstrate how objects can be moved around independently. The Obama PDF has a clean separation of text isolated on each layer, unlike the AP optimization layer results for the same information in Figures 25 26. The layer results seen in the Obama PDF cannot be duplicated through optimization, but can be easily duplicated (and explained) with an understanding of image manipulation. The date stamp and certification stamp are the selected layers in Figure22. The Links and Layers panels verify the selection along with the active blue paths that display around the layered objects.
Date & certification stamps moved
Selected active layers Date stamp Certification stamp
Figure22: Target layers and objects for date and certify stamps
Figure23: Layers allow for moving the date and certify stamps
Figure23 demonstrates that the objects can be moved independent of the background (or other text items). Note that in the Obama PDF, the text for the certification stamp is completely and independently separated onto its own layer. The same is true of the date stamp. This is a clear and important indication of image manipulation in which each of these items can be manipulated independently of the surrounding background layer. This clean separation can only be accomplished through image manipulation of document elements. Figure24 shows the background layer can also be selected and moved independently from the stamp and date layer elements. The white halos are a part of the background layer since white is the typical color present when building a background layer. Thus, whenever the safety paper pattern is not present, the typical color displayed in the absence of pattern will be white.
Background selected & moved
Automation v Manual Manipulation

Figure25 and Figure26 shows the lack of predictability when an automation process chops up an image and generates layers during optimization. As previously mentioned, the AP file opens with the appearance of a normal scanned document containing only one layer. For this reason, the AP file was used to demonstrate what happens when optimization is applied. After the optimization process, the AP file displays a multitude of layers. Most of the black text extracts onto one bitmap layer at the top of the layer list. This top text layer is turned off in Figure25. Note that the text does not separate cleanly onto one layer. Remnants of text remain behind on a variety of the many multi-color layers in the list that still have their visibility turned on in Figure25. Additionally, the top text layer contains a large portion of all document text and optimization fails to separate text according to usefulness. In other words, all the stamp text does not reside on its own layernor is there a different layer for the date textand again, no clean and complete separation. Figure26 has the top text layer visibility turned back on again, but instead, one of the bottom background layers visibility is turned off this time. The selected paths show how theres no human quality to the logic in dividing information into layersthe machine is deciding based on an automated process.
Figure24: Background layer with white halos can also move
Bottom layers selectedtext layer off
Figure25: Optimized lacks the human element in layering

Text layer onone background layer off
Figure26: Text layer turned on and one background layer off

White Halo Creation
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Top layer: Certification stamp text
The white halo effect presents two common questions; why is there a white halo, and what caused it? Before answering the former question, lets address the latter. The white halo could simply be a function of a selection created around all the textbefore filling the background layer with a green safety pattern. The green safety pattern could have easily been applied to the background layer without any selectionthus a solid pattern would have covered the entire background layerwithout a white halo. But for some reason, a white halo effect was generated either through an active selection when creating the background, or through an enhancement process, or a combination of both. As might be expected, the creation of a background using a text selection is easily demonstrated with step-by-step Figures. Figure27 shows the demonstration file set-up. The stamp text from the Obama PDF file was copied (from Illustrator) and pasted into a new Photoshop file on a layer that is above a solid white background layer. Note the two layers in the Layers panel: Stamp Text layer and the Background layer (currently filled with white). When working in a graphic program, if you want to apply any changes to an image, you have a choice to use a selection for the target area, or to make changes without a selection. If there is no selection, then any changes can be applied to the entire image without any restrictions. If a selection is created, the changes are limited to the selection area only. Analogous to selecting text in a Word program to apply a change, such as bold formatting; the text is first selected, and the bold formatting is then applied to the selection only. In this example, a selection will be created around the text as the next step shown in Figure28. Any object separated on a layer can easily be used to create a selection of that object. Simply hold down the Ctrl key and click on the layer thumbnailin this case click on the Stamp Text layer. A selection that resembles marching ants appears around the text. The next step is to expand the selection to include a little extra space surrounding the text. This can be accomplished from the Select menu, using Modify, and then choosing the Expand option (also seen in Figure28). The Expand Selection dialog box displays in Figure29 which allows a user to specify how many pixels to expand the selection. Since, the idea is to surround the text by a small area, the amount entered in this example will be 2 pixels. The expanded selection in Figure30 currently surrounds the text. However, the current selection area needs to remain white since the ultimate goal is to apply a pattern fill to the surrounding background areanot the surrounding text area. Therefore, the selection needs to be reversedalso known as inverseto ensure the pattern will fill everything on the background layer except the text area. Go to the Select menu shown in Figure30. The Inverse option is chosen. The selection is now ready to fill with a color, or a pattern, or even another scanned image (such as a scan of security safety paper). Everything but the text area is now selected. For purposes of this demonstration, the next step will define a safety paper pattern and fill the background layer using the current active selection.
Bottom layer: White background
Figure27: A two-layer stamp text file created to demonstrate
Ctrl+click on layer thumbnail
Text is selected
Figure28: A text selection created and selection expanded
Expand Selection dialog box
Figure29: Expand Selection optionexpanded 2 pixels

Selection Inverse option
Text selection expanded by 2 pixels
Figure30: Next the selection needs to be inversed

Safety Paper Creation
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Selection of a sample pattern area
In a program such as Photoshop, a selection can be filled with a solid color of choice, an image, or a pattern can also be defined as a fill option. It should be noted that a full sheet of safety paper could have been scanned and used without going through steps to define it as a patternbut a pattern can be easily defined from an existing image as an alternative method. Most likely, there was access to a sample of safety paper when creating the Obama PDF. Its not necessary to reinvent the wheelthe current Obama PDF file will be used as the source pattern for the purpose of this demonstration. The Obama PDF is temporarily opened in Figure31 and a square selection is made to isolate a portion of the pattern that will tile easilywhich means that when the selected area is filled repeatedly next to each other, the pattern continues seamlesslywithout any noticeable disruptions in the pattern. With the selection active, the Define Pattern option is selected from the Edit menu. The Obama PDF file is closed and no longer needed. Back to the demonstration file shown in Figure32; with the Background selected as the active layer, the Fill option is chosen from the Edit menu. In the Fill dialog box, the Pattern option from the Content list is chosen in Figure33.
Define the selection as a pattern
Figure31: Selection used to define a pattern
Fill option chosen
The safety paper pattern defined earlier in Figure31 is also chosen in the Fill dialog box in Figure34. Click OK to complete the effect. The results in Figure35 show a slight white halo outside the text.
Background layer active
Selection inversed
In Figure36the Stamp Text layers visibility is turned off, and the marching ants are deselected (Ctrl+D). The white halo effect was easily manufactured in less than a minute, in less time than it took to read the explanation. In summation, the security paper background layer was added as the last step to create the illusion of an image in which text was imprinted on security paper. However, the text had in fact been placed and arranged on a solid white background. This last application gives a created image the false appearance of being an official document.
Figure32: Use the Edit menu to launch the Fill dialog box
Pattern Fill option chosen
Background contains pattern fill
Figure33: The Pattern option is used in the Fill dialog box
Figure35: The pattern fills the selection area
Custom Pattern chosen
Stamp Text visibility off
White halo effect
Figure34: The defined pattern chosen from Custom Pattern list
Figure36: Turn off the text layer: White halo effect is displayed

Some Final Thoughts
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The previous exercise demonstrated how the white halo could be created, but there can be a multitude of ways to accomplish the same task in a program such as Photoshop. Whether or not the exercise presented is the definitive method is not the main point. The exercise was presented as a possible solution to the question: How did the white halo get into the document? But actually, the only question that matters is: why is the white halo there at all? Any official document obtained by legitimate procedures and scanned would not have the white halo. As previously stated, every anomaly can be easily explained as a manufactured document. Not only does this document display attributes that it was completely manufactured digitally, but there is strong evidence that a master file exists as a source file. What is meant by a master file? A master file is a file in which all the objects still exist on separate layers (in other words, more layers and information than seen in the Obama PDF sub-layers). For example, in the Obama PDF, the bottom layer contains the background pattern with some text elements merged onto that layer. In the master file version, the text still remains on a separate layerNOT merged with the background layer. It is highly probable that this master file also contains the short form certificate layers (which would explain the problems seen in the AP version of the file). Figure37 and Figure38 demonstrate that the AP version of the long form certificate contains a different set of problems as follows: sudden shift to a different background A Safety paper pattern in the shadow at the left edgebut not in the document background Short form embedded into the printoutFigure38 is an enhanced version which allows the details to be seen more easily Once again, all of these additional problems displayed in the AP version would not occur if the source document presented to the AP had been a legitimate scanned document without manipulation. However, all three problems would easily be a result of a manufactured source filein which layers from a master file were turned off or mistakenly left on.
Forgot to turn off a short form layer
Forgot to turn off safety-paper layer in manufactured shadow
Background color magically shifts to blue
Figure37: Some extra remnants visible in the AP version
Enhancement applied to display short form elements
Figure38: Enhancement applied to easily see short form
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The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release April 27, 2011
Press Gaggle by Press Secretary Jay Carney, 4/27/2011 James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 8:48 A.M. EDT MR. CARNEY: Good morning, everybody. You can read the paperwork we just handed out in a minute. Let me just get started. Thank you for coming this morning. I have with me today Dan Pfeiffer, the Presidents Director of Communications, as well as Bob Bauer, the Presidents White House Counsel, who will have a few things to say about the documents we handed to you today. And then we'll take your questions. I remind you this is off camera and only pen and pad, not for audio. And I give you Dan Pfeiffer. MR. PFEIFFER: Thanks, Jay. What you have in front of you now is a packet of papers that includes the Presidents long-form birth certificate from the state of Hawaii, the original birth certificate that the President requested and we posted online in 2008, and then the correspondence between the Presidents counsel and the Hawaii State Department of Health that led to the release of those documents. If you would just give me a minute to -- indulge me a second to walk through a little of the history here, since all of you weren't around in 2008 when we originally released the Presidents birth certificate, I will do that. And then Bob Bauer will walk through the timeline of how we acquired these documents. In 2008, in response to media inquiries, the Presidents campaign requested his birth certificate from the state of
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Hawaii. We received that document; we posted it on the website. That document was then inspected by independent fact checkers, who came to the campaign headquarters and inspected the document -- independent fact checkers did, and declared that it was proof positive that the President was born in Hawaii. To be clear, the document we presented on the Presidents website in 2008 is his birth certificate. It is the piece of paper that every Hawaiian receives when they contact the state to request a birth certificate. It is the birth certificate they take to the Department of Motor Vehicles to get their drivers license and that they take to the federal government to get their passport. It is the legally recognized document. That essentially -- for those of you who followed the campaign closely know that solved the issue. We didnt spend any time talking about this after that. There may have been some very fringe discussion out there, but as a campaign issue it was settled and it was -Q When you posted this did you post the other side of it where the signature is?
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MR. PFEIFFER: We posted both sides and when it was looked at it was looked at by -- the fact checkers came to headquarters and actually examined the document we had. That settled the issue. In recent weeks, the issue has risen again as some folks have begun raising a question about the original -- about the long-form birth certificate you now have in front of you. And Bob will explain why -the extraordinary steps we had to take to receive that and the legal restraints that are in place there. But it became an issue again. And it went to -- essentially the discussion transcended from the nether regions of the Internet into mainstream political debate in this country. It became something that when both Republicans and Democrats were talking to the media they were asked about. It was a constant discussion on mainstream news organizations. And the President believed that it was becoming a distraction from the major issues we're having in this country. And he was particularly struck by the fact that right after the Republicans released their budget framework and the President released his, we were prepared to have a very important, very vigorous debate in this country about the future of the country, the direction were going to take, how were doing to deal with very important issues like education, Medicare, how were going to deal with taxes in this country. And that should -- thats the debate we should be having yet.
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What was really dominating a lot of discussion was this fake controversy, essentially, a sideshow, that was distracting from this real issue. And an example of that would be when major Democrats and Republicans went onto mainstream news organizations to talk about their budget plans -- including the President -- they were asked about this. They were asked about what they thought about the controversy. They were asked if they believed the President was born in the United States. And it was really a distraction. That really struck the President, led him to ask his counsel to look into whether we could ask the state of Hawaii to release the long-form certificate, which is not something they generally do. And he did that despite the fact that it probably was not in his long-term -- it would have been in his -- probably in his long-term political interests to allow this birther debate to dominate discussion in the Republican Party for months to come. But he thought even though it might have been good politics, he thought it was bad for the country. And so he asked counsel to look into this. And now Ill have Bob explain that, and then well take your questions. MR. CARNEY: I just want to -- sorry, I meant to mention at the top, as some of you may have seen, the President will be coming to the briefing room at 9:45 a.m., making a brief statement about this -- not taking questions, but just wanted to let you know. MR. PFEIFFER: And he will use this as an opportunity to make a larger point about what this debate says about our politics. Go ahead, Bob. MR. BAUER: Early last week the decision was made to review the legal basis for seeking a waiver from the longstanding prohibition in the state Department of Health on releasing the long-form birth certificate. And so we undertook a legal analysis and determined a waiver request could be made that we had the grounds upon which to make that request. And by Thursday of last week, I spoke to private counsel to the President and asked her to contact the State Department of Health and to have a conversation about any requirements, further requirements, that they thought we had to satisfy to lodge that waiver request. She had that conversation with the state Department of Health on Thursday -- counsel in question is Judy Corley at the law firm of Perkins Coie, and you have a copy of the letter she subsequently sent to the department with the Presidents written request. The department outlined the requirements for the President to make this request. He signed a letter making that request on Friday afternoon upon returning from the West Coast. And private counsel forwarded his written request -- written, signed request -- along with a letter from counsel, to the state Department of Health on Friday.
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The department, as I understood it, after reviewing the law and reviewing the grounds asserted in the request, came to the conclusion that a waiver could be appropriately granted. We were advised that the long-form birth certificate could be copied and made available to us as early as Monday, April 25th -- the day before yesterday. And we made arrangements for counsel to travel to Honolulu to pick it up and it was returned to the White House yesterday afternoon. Let me emphasize again, there is a specific statute that governs access to and inspection of vital records in the state of Hawaii. The birth certificate that we posted online is, in fact, and always has been, and remains, the legal birth certificate of the President that would be used for all legal purposes that any resident of Hawaii would want to use a birth certificate for. However, there is legal authority in the department to make exceptions to the general policy on not releasing the long-form birth certificate. The policy in question, by the way, on non-release has been in effect since the mid-1980s, I understand. So while I cannot tell you what the entire history of exceptions has been, it is a limited one. This is one of very few that I understand have been granted for the reasons set out in private counsels letter. MR. PFEIFFER: We'll be happy to take some questions. Q I guess I just want to make sure that were clear on this. Even though this one says certificate of live birth on here, this is different than the other certificate of live birth that weve seen? MR. PFEIFFER: Yes. The second page there is the one that was posted on the Internet. Q Okay.
MR. PFEIFFER: And that is a copy of the one that has been kept at the Hawaii Department of Health. Q Okay. And this is the one that would be referred to -- that people have been asking for that is the birth certificate? MR. PFEIFFER: They are both -- the second one is the birth certificate. The one on the top is what is referred to as the long-form birth certificate. As you can see -- and Bob can walk you through it -- it contains some additional information that is not on the second page, which was the birth certificate which was released during the campaign. If you could just explain the difference.
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MR. BAUER: Theres a difference between a certificate and a certification. The certification is simply a verification of certain information thats in the original birth certificate. The birth certificate, as you can see, has signatures at the bottom from the attending physician, the local registrar, who essentially oversees the maintenance of the records. It contains some additional information also -- that is to say, the original birth certificate -- it contains some additional information like the ages of the parents, birthplaces, residence, street address, the name of the hospital. The core information thats required for legal purposes and that is put into the actual certification thats a computer-generated document, which we posted in 2008, that information is abstracted, if you will, from the original birth certificate, put into the computerized short-form certification, and made available to Hawaiian residents at their request. So the long form, which is a certificate, has more information, but the short form has the information thats legally sufficient for all the relevant purposes. Q This first one has never been released publicly, correct?
MR. BAUER: Thats correct. It is in a bound volume in the records at the state Department of Health in Hawaii. Q Bob, can you explain why President Obama let this drag on for four years? Was it Donald Trump that prompted you to issue this? MR. BAUER: Ill let Dan -MR. PFEIFFER: Sure. Q I know you expected that question, right? (Laughter.) MR. PFEIFFER: He even said you would be the one who would ask it. (Laughter.) I dont think this dragged on for four years because this was a resolved -- for those of you who remember the campaign, this issue was resolved in 2008. And it has not been an issue, none of you have asked about it, called about it, reported on it until the last few weeks. And as I said earlier, it probably would have been -- a lot of the pundits out there have talked about the fact that this whole birther debate has been really bad for the Republican Party and would probably be good for the President politically. But despite that, the President, as I said, was struck by how this was crowding out the debate,
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particularly around the budget, on important issues, and was an example of the sort of sideshows that our politics focuses on instead of the real challenges that we have to confront as a country. And so thats why he made this decision now, because it became an issue that transcended sort of this -- it essentially was something that was talked about, as I said, from the nether regions of the Internet onto mainstream network newscasts. In fact, Jay has been asked about this just yesterday in this room. Q So I guess the implication is that you did get political advantage by having not released this until today, over the course of the last four years? MR. PFEIFFER: There has been -- no one that I can recall actually asked us to -- we were asked to release the Presidents birth certificate in 2008. We did that. And then no one -- it never -- up until a few weeks ago, there was never an issue about that that wasnt the birth certificate from any credible individual or media outlet. And it hasnt been until -- I mean, Jay was asked about this yesterday -Q When you say that, you mean certification -- you released the certification?
MR. PFEIFFER: When any Hawaiian wants -- requests their birth certificate because they want to get a drivers license, they want to get a passport, they do exactly what the President did in 2008. And thats what that is. And we released that. And thats what any Hawaiian would do to release their birth certificate. And that was good enough for everyone until very recently this became a question again. And so the President made this decision. Hell talk to you more about his thinking on that. Q And this is going to sound -- I mean, you can just anticipate what people are going to -- remain unconvinced. Theyre going to say that this is just a photocopy of a piece of paper, you could have typed anything in there. Will the actual certificate be on display or viewable at any -- (laughter.) Q Will the President be holding it?
MR. PFEIFFER: He will not, and I will not leave it here for him to do so. But it will -- the State Department of Health in Hawaii will obviously attest that that is a -- what they have on file. As Bob said, its in a book in Hawaii. MR. BAUER: And youll see the letter from the director of the Health Department that states that she oversaw the copy and is attesting to -Q But do you understand that this could quiet the conspiracy theorists?
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MR. PFEIFFER: There will always be some selection of people who will believe something, and that's not the issue. The issue is that this is not a discussion that is just happening among conspiracy theorists. Its happening here in this room; its happening on all of the networks. And its something that, as I said, every major political figure of both parties whos actually out trying to talk about real issues is asked about this by the media. And so the President decided to release this. And I'll leave it to others to decide whether theres still -- there will be some who still have a different -- have a conspiracy about this. Q Youve got two certified copies, according to this study. You have these physical --
MR. PFEIFFER: Yes. I showed you one. Just one. Q You showed us a photocopy of one.
MR. PFEIFFER: No, I showed you -Q Does that have a stamp?
MR. PFEIFFER: It has a seal on it. Q Why does this rise to the level of a presidential statement?
MR. PFEIFFER: The President -- this in itself -- when you hear the President I think youll understand the point hes making. That will be in not too long. Q Did the President change his own mind about this? In other words, was he advocating during the campaign lets just put it out there and get it over with, or was this an internal shift in thinking based -- in other words, was it the President who steadfastly during the campaign said this is ridiculous, I don't want to give this any more ground, and has now changed his mind? Or is this the -MR. PFEIFFER: Lets be very clear. You were there for the campaign. There was never a question about the original birth certificate during the campaign. It was a settled issue. I was there for the original decision to release the birth certificate. I was there when we posted it online. I'm not sure I even knew there was an original one that was different than the one we posted online because it wasnt an issue. So it wasnt like -- lets be very clear. We were asked for the Presidents birth certificate in 2008; we released the Presidents birth certificate; and it was done. That was it.
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And so there hasnt been a discussion about this other document for years. Its only been in the last few weeks. And so to your second question, the President decided to do this and he'll talk about this when he gets here -decided to do it at the timeline that Bob laid out because it was a -- this was a sideshow that was distracting from the real challenges that we're facing. Its not just a sideshow for him; its a sideshow for our entire politics that have become focused on this. Q Not to give Donald Trump more publicity than he has, but is he the person who sort of -- sort of that bridge between what you're calling a fringe and the mainstream? Do you think that hes the reason why this tripped the switch to a level where you now have to deal with something you thought was dealt with? MR. PFEIFFER: Its not for me to say why mainstream media organizations began to cover this debate. Theyll have to answer that for themselves. Q How concerned were you about running against Donald Trump in a general election?
MR. PFEIFFER: I'd refer any questions on the election to the campaign. Q Can you address the reports of Petraeus to the CIA and DOD --
MR. PFEIFFER: You get points for that, Carol. (Laughter.) MR. CARNEY: Yes. I don't have -- but youll be disappointed to learn that I don't have a personnel announcement for you. The President will be addressing this -- questions about personnel tomorrow. Q Dan, was there a debate about whether or not this deserved being discussed by the White House, whether or not -- and I'm going back to the birth certificate. I lose points, I understand. But was there debate about whether or not this was worthy of the White House? MR. PFEIFFER: The point I'd make is that we weren't the ones who -- we're not the first ones to bring this up in this room. Jay has been asked questions about this; the President has been asked about it in media interviews. And so that wasnt a decision that we made, and the President made the decision to do this and he made the decision to -- and when he comes down here this morning he'll talk to you about why he thinks theres an important point to be made here. Q Getting back to the personnel announcements, does the President understand that these announcements have been made and sourced satisfactorily for most news organizations before he speaks up and hes not letting his
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White House corroborate? MR. CARNEY: I don't have a comment on that for you, Bill. (Laughter.) Q I mean, this is such BS. Its all out there and you guys are -- okay, the President is going to talk about this tomorrow so we can't say anything. MR. CARNEY: Bill, you're free to make phone calls everywhere you can. I'm just saying that we don't have a personnel announcement for you today. Q And he'll tomorrow, he'll cover all the aforementioned switches?
MR. CARNEY: We'll have a personnel announcement tomorrow. Q Jay, yesterday you talked about failsafe triggers as sort of a positive alternative to spending cuts. I'm wondering if the White House has any openness to including that, because its a White House proposal, including that in any legislation that would raise the debt ceiling limit. MR. CARNEY: Well, what we've said very clearly, and I think Secretary Geithner said it eloquently yesterday, it is a dangerous, risky idea to hold hostage any other -- hold hostage, rather, raising the debt ceiling, a vote on raising the debt ceiling, to any other piece of legislation. The commitment this President has to moving aggressively towards a comprehensive deficit reduction plan is clear. It will be clear again when the Vice President convenes a meeting, bipartisan, bicameral meeting, next week. And he hopes that progress will be made on that very quickly. In terms of negotiating what that would look like, I think the negotiators should do that, led by the Vice President, Republicans and Democrats together. But again, explicitly linking or holding hostage the absolute necessity of raising the debt ceiling to any other piece of legislation and declaring that we'll tank the U.S. economy and perhaps the global economy if we don't get this specific thing that we want, I think is a dangerous and unprecedented thing to do. And we're confident, remain confident, that the leaders of both parties in Congress, as well as the President, will agree with the President, as I have said many times, that we do not have an alternative to raising the debt ceiling because, as many have said, outside observers, economists and businessmen and women, the impact of that would be calamitous at best. Q So even though its your own proposal that you guys endorsed you don't want to see it as part of the final
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package? MR. CARNEY: I'm not negotiating individual pieces of a package that we hope Republicans and Democrats can come together around from this podium. But again, we believe its essential to -- the President believes -- that's one of the reasons why we're doing this right now -- we believe that these are big debates that need to be had. They can be contentious, argumentative, serious, comprehensive, detailed, because theyre important; theyre all about Americas future. And theyre about visions of this country and where we're going that need to be debated. And this debate was being crowded out in many ways by a sideshow. And he looks forward to having a debate on the real issues that Americans want us to talk about -- long-term economic plans, deficit reduction, investments in the kinds of things that will help this economy grow and create jobs, dealing with our energy needs, a long-term energy plan. These are all issues that have been sidetracked at least in the public debate by some of the issues that we're talking about this morning. Q Is there a concern that more and more people were actually starting to believe its sideshow -- I mean, people have been asking about -MR. CARNEY: I will let the President speak for himself, but what Dan was saying and I think is important is that the issue here is that the President feels that this was bad for the country; that its not healthy for our political debate, when we have so many important issues that Americans care about, that affect their lives, to be drawn into sideshows about fallacies that have been disproven with the full weight of a legal document for several years. So, again, as Dan said, and a lot of political pundits have said, you could say that it would be good politics, smart politics, for the President to let this play out. He cares more about whats good for the country. He wants the debate on the issues. He wants the focus on the issues that Americans care about. Q Jay, the President yesterday said that he had been talking to oil exporters about increasing output. Who specifically has he been talking -MR. CARNEY: Well, I said -- I want to clarify. I said several times I believe from this podium when asked questions about our overall handling of the issue of high gas prices that we've had conversations with oil-producing states and allies and those conversations continue. I don't have specific the President spoke with this leader or other government officials spoke with others, but those are ongoing conversations that, of course, we would be having in a situation like this. Q Do you guys have any comment on the NATO soldiers that were killed in Afghanistan and any confirmation on whether there were Americans?
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MR. CARNEY: I don't have anything for you on that this morning. Q Just quickly, back on the birth certificate, yesterday you said this was a settled issue. So --
MR. CARNEY: Well, as Dan said, again, it has been a settled issue. MR. PFEIFFER: From a factual point of view, its absolutely a settled issue. But the fact that it was a settled issue did not keep it from becoming a major part of the political discussion in this town for the last several weeks here. So theres absolutely no question that what the President released in 2008 was his birth certificate and answered that question, and many of your organizations have done excellent reporting which proved that to be the case. But it continued; the President thought it was a sideshow and chose to take this step today for the reasons Bob laid out. Q Aside from the policy distractions that was presented, did you have some concern because it was sort of reaching back into the mainstream news coverage that this could become a factor in the 2012 election with centrist voters? MR. PFEIFFER: No. Q Just to clarify what this document is --
MR. PFEIFFER: This is the -- the letter first and the two certified copies -- this is one of those. This is the same thing you have a copy of as the first page of your packet. Q How did it get here?
MR. PFEIFFER: As Bob said, it arrived by plane -- the Presidents personal counsel went to Hawaii and brought it back and we got it last night. Q Last night?
MR. PFEIFFER: Last night. Q What time?
MR. PFEIFFER: Between 4:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m.
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When did you decide to do this gaggle?
MR. PFEIFFER: Whats that? Q When was this gaggle put on -- when was this planned?
MR. PFEIFFER: Whatever time you received your guidance suggesting that it would be this time tomorrow morning. Q Are these letters supposed to demonstrate the legal steps that were involved in releasing it to the White House counsel? MR. BAUER: The letters that you have, the personal request from the President, along with the accompanying letter from private counsel, is merely meant to document the legal path to getting the waiver of that policy so we could get the long-form certificate. Q The waiver of Hawaii state government policy?
MR. BAUER: Right. The non-release of the long-form certificate, which has been in effect since the 1980s -- a natural question would have been, well, what did you do to obtain the waiver, and those letters represent the request. Q Well, isnt it true that anybody who was born in Hawaii can write this letter? I mean, that's all there is to the waiver process? MR. BAUER: No. Let me just explain once again because I also noticed, by the way, in one report already the wrong certificate was actually posted on the website. The certificate with the signatures at the bottom -- and that's a key difference between the short form and the long form -- the long form has signatures at the bottom from the attending physician, the local registrar, and the mother, is the original birth certificate, which sits in a bound volume in the State Department of Health. The short from is a computerized abstract, and that's the legal birth certificate we requested in 2008 and that Hawaiians are entitled to. Since the mid-1980s, the State Department of Health, for administrative reasons, only provides to people who request their birth certificate the short form. They do not provide the long form. So in order for us to obtain the long form, we had to have a waiver. We had to actually determine that there was
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a legal basis for providing it, and then ask them to exercise their authority to provide us with the long form. The steps required to accomplish that were a letter from the person with the direct and vital interest -- the President -- so you have a letter from the President, and then there was an accompanying letter from counsel basically formalizing the request. So the reason we included that is that those were legal steps we took to obtain the long form by way of this waiver. Q Do we have the letter from the President --
MR. BAUER: Its in the packet. Q And you went to Hawaii?
MR. BAUER: I did not go to Hawaii. The counsel, Judy Corley, who signed the -- the Presidents personal counsel at Perkins Coie, Judy Corley, whose letter -- signed letter of request is in your packet, traveled to Honolulu and picked up the birth certificate. Q A question on the situation regarding the Defense of Marriage Act. Yesterday Attorney General Eric Holder rejected attacks on Paul Clement, who is taking up defense of the statute on behalf of the U.S. House. Paul Clement has taken a lot of heat from the LGBT community for volunteering to take up defense of DOMA. Eric Holder said, Paul Clement is a great lawyer and has done a lot of really great things for this nation. In taking on the representation -- representing Congress in connection with DOMA, I think he is doing that which lawyers do when were at our best. That criticism I think was very misplaced. And Holder went on to compare the criticism of Clement to attacks on the Justice Department lawyers for their past for detainees at Guantanamo Bay. Does the President share Eric Holders views on this? MR. CARNEY: We do share Eric Holders views on this. We think -- as we said from the beginning when we talked about -- when I did from this podium -- about the decision no longer from the administration to defend the Defense of Marriage Act, that we would support efforts by Congress if they so chose to defend it. And so I have nothing to add to the Attorney Generals comments. Q Following Mondays Af-Pak Situation Room meeting, what is the Presidents assessment of the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan? And does he think that July drawdown is still on? MR. CARNEY: The Presidents policy, which included the beginning of a transition -- beginning of a drawdown of American troops, is absolutely still on track. I dont have anything additionally from the meeting yesterday beyond what weve said. But the policy remains as it was.
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MR. EARNEST: Jay, we should wrap it up here. MR. CARNEY: Yes. Last one, yes. Q Given the comments of the Pakistani official quoted in the Wall Street Journal, is Pakistan still a U.S. ally, and to what extent? MR. CARNEY: Pakistan is still a U.S. ally. Thanks. END 9:18 A.M. EDT
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CASE #34-2012-80001048 EXHIBIT 7
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Born in the U.S.A.

The truth about Obama's birth certificate.
Posted on August 21, 2008 , Updated on November 1, 2008; April 27, 2011
Summary
In June, the Obama campaign released a digitally scanned image of his birth certificate to quell speculative charges that he might not be a natural-born citizen. But the image prompted more blog-based skepticism about the documents authenticity. And recently, author Jerome Corsi, whose book attacks Obama, said in a TV interview that the birth certificate the campaign has is "fake." We beg to differ. FactCheck.org staffers have now seen, touched, examined and photographed the original birth certificate. We conclude that it meets all of the requirements from the State Department for proving U.S. citizenship. Claims that the document lacks a raised seal or a signature are false. We have posted high-resolution photographs of the document as "supporting documents" to this article. Our conclusion: Obama was born in the U.S.A. just as he has always said. Update, Nov. 1: The director of Hawaiis Department of Health confirmed Oct. 31 that Obama was born in Honolulu.
Analysis
Update Nov. 1: The Associated Press quoted Chiyome Fukino as saying that both she and the registrar of vital statistics, Alvin Onaka, have personally verified that the health department holds Obamas original birth certificate. Fukino also was quoted by several other news organizations. The Honolulu Advertiser quoted Fukino as saying the agency had been bombarded by requests, and that the registrar of statistics had even been called in at home in the middle of the night. Honolulu Advertiser, Nov. 1 2008: "This has gotten ridiculous," state health director Dr. Chiyome Fukino said yesterday. "There are plenty of other, important things to focus on, like the economy, taxes, energy." . . . Will this be enough to quiet the doubters? "I hope so," Fukino said. "We need to get some work done." Fukino said she has personally seen and verified that the Hawaii State Department of Health has Sen. Obamas original birth certificate on record in accordance with state policies and procedures." Update, April 27, 2011: The White House released the long-form version of President Barack Obamas birth certificate, confirming (yet again) that he was born in the United States. The Hawaii Department of Health made an exception in Obamas case and issued copies of the "Certificate of Live Birth." Since we first wrote about Obamas birth certificate on June 16, speculation on his citizenship has continued apace. Some claim that Obama posted a fake birth certificate to his Web page. That charge leaped from the blogosphere to the mainstream media earlier this week when Jerome Corsi, author of a book attacking Obama, repeated the claim in an Aug. 15 interview with Steve Doocy on Fox News. Corsi: Well, what would be really helpful is if Senator Obama would release primary documents like his birth certificate. The campaign has a false, fake birth certificate posted on their website. How is anybody supposed to really piece together his life? Doocy: What do you mean they have a "false birth certificate" on their Web site? Corsi: The original birth certificate of Obama has never been released, and the campaign refuses to release it.
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Doocy: Well, couldnt it just be a State of Hawaii-produced duplicate? Corsi: No, its a theres been good analysis of it on the Internet, and its been shown to have watermarks from Photoshop. Its a fake document thats on the Web site right now, and the original birth certificate the campaign refuses to produce. Corsi isnt the only skeptic claiming that the document is a forgery. Among the most frequent objections we saw on forums, blogs and e-mails are: The birth certificate doesnt have a raised seal. It isnt signed. No creases from folding are evident in the scanned version. In the zoomed-in view, theres a strange halo around the letters. The certificate number is blacked out. The date bleeding through from the back seems to say "2007," but the document wasnt released until 2008. The document is a "certification of birth," not a "certificate of birth." Recently FactCheck representatives got a chance to spend some time with the birth certificate, and we can attest to the fact that it is real and three-dimensional and resides at the Obama headquarters in Chicago. We can assure readers that the certificate does bear a raised seal, and that its stamped on the back by Hawaii state registrar Alvin T. Onaka (who uses a signature stamp rather than signing individual birth certificates). We even brought home a few photographs.
The Obama birth certificate, held by FactCheck writer Joe Miller
Alvin T. Onakas signature stamp
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The raised seal
Blowup of text You can click on the photos to get full-size versions, which havent been edited in any way, except that some have been rotated 90 degrees for viewing purposes. The certificate has all the elements the State Department requires for proving citizenship to obtain a U.S. passport: "your full name, the full name of your parent(s), date and place of birth, sex, date the birth record was filed, and the seal or other certification of the official custodian of such records." The names, date and place of birth, and filing date are all evident on the scanned version, and you can see the seal above. The document is a "certification of birth," also known as a short-form birth certificate. The long form is drawn up by the hospital and includes additional information such as birth weight and parents hometowns. The short form is printed by the state and draws from a database with fewer details. The Hawaii Department of Healths birth record request form does not give the option to request a photocopy of your long-form birth certificate, but their short form has enough information to be acceptable to the State Department. We tried to ask the Hawaii DOH why they only offer the short form, among other questions, but they have not given a response. The scan released by the campaign shows halos around the black text, making it look (to some) as though the text might have been pasted on top of an image of security paper. But the document itself has no such halos, nor do the close-up photos we took of it. We conclude that the halo seen in the image produced by the campaign is a digital artifact from the scanning process. We asked the Obama campaign about the date stamp and the blacked-out certificate number. The certificate is stamped June 2007, because thats when Hawaii officials produced it for the campaign, which requested that document and "all the records we could get our hands on" according to spokesperson Shauna Daly. The campaign didnt release its copy until 2008, after speculation began to appear on the Internet questioning Obamas citizenship. The campaign then rushed to release the document, and the rush is responsible for the blacked-out certificate number. Says Shauna: "[We] couldnt get someone on the phone in Hawaii to tell us whether the number represented some secret information, and we erred on the side of blacking it out. Since then weve found out its pretty irrelevant for the outside world." The document we looked at did have a certificate number; it is 151 1961 010641.
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Blowup of certificate number Some of the conspiracy theories that have circulated about Obama are quite imaginative. One conservative blogger suggested that the campaign might have obtained a valid Hawaii birth certificate, soaked it in solvent, then reprinted it with Obamas information. Of course, this anonymous blogger didnt have access to the actual document and presents this as just one possible "scenario" without any evidence that such a thing actually happened or is even feasible. We also note that so far none of those questioning the authenticity of the document have produced a shred of evidence that the information on it is incorrect. Instead, some speculate that somehow, maybe, he was born in another country and doesnt meet the Constitutions requirement that the president be a "natural-born citizen." We think our colleagues at PolitiFact.com, who also dug into some of these loopy theories put it pretty well: "It is possible that Obama conspired his way to the precipice of the worlds biggest job, involving a vast network of people and government agencies over decades of lies. Anythings possible. But step back and look at the overwhelming evidence to the contrary and your sense of whats reasonable has to take over." In fact, the conspiracy would need to be even deeper than our colleagues realized. In late July, a researcher looking to dig up dirt on Obama instead found a birth announcement that had been published in the Honolulu Advertiser on Sunday, Aug. 13, 1961:
Obamas birth announcement The announcement was posted by a pro-Hillary Clinton blogger who grudgingly concluded that Obama "likely" was born Aug. 4, 1961 in Honolulu. Of course, its distantly possible that Obamas grandparents may have planted the announcement just in case their grandson needed to prove his U.S. citizenship in order to run for president someday. We suggest that those who choose to go down that path should first equip themselves with a high-quality tinfoil hat. The evidence is clear: Barack Obama was born in the U.S.A. Update, August 26: We received responses to some of our questions from the Hawaii Department of Health. They couldnt tell us anything about their security paper, but they did answer another frequently-raised question: why is Obamas fathers race listed as "African"? Kurt Tsue at the DOH told us that fathers race and mothers race are supplied by the parents, and that "we accept what the parents self identify themselves to be." We consider it
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reasonable to believe that Barack Obama, Sr., would have thought of and reported himself as "African." Its certainly not the slam dunk some readers have made it out to be. When we asked about the security borders, which look different from some other examples of Hawaii certifications of live birth, Kurt said "The borders are generated each time a certified copy is printed. A citation located on the bottom left hand corner of the certificate indicates which date the form was revised." He also confirmed that the information in the short form birth certificate is sufficient to prove citizenship for "all reasonable purposes." by Jess Henig, with Joe Miller
Sources
United States Department of State. "Application for a U.S. Passport." Accessed 20 Aug. 2008.
State of Hawaii Department of Health. "Request for Certified Copy of Birth Record." Accessed 20 Aug. 2008. Hollyfield, Amy. "Obamas Birth Certificate: Final Chapter." Politifact.com. 27 Jun. 2008. The Associated Press. "State declares Obama birth certificate genuine" 31 Oct 2008. Nakaso, Dan. "Obamas certificate of birth OK, state says; Health director issues voucher in response to ridiculous barrage" Honolulu Advertiser 1 Nov 2008.
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Qualifications Whos checking up on officeholder eligibility? Find out here Home Activism, Eligibility, New Hampshire, POTUS
Eligibility Update: FactCheck.org Doesnt Do Forensics; NH SoS and Certificates; British Policeman on Eligibility
Submitted by Phil on Tue, Nov 24, 2009472 Comments
TheObamaFile reports on what readers here have seen me promulgate all along regarding the FactCheck.org blogs credentials on making any sort of forensic document determination RE: Mr. Obamas Hawaiian Certification of Live Birth they dont have the right background (update: see bios here): FactCheck.org identifies their anal-ists as Jess Henig and Joe Miller. OK, thats fine, but who and what are Jess Henig and Joe Miller? Are they qualified to perform an analysis of ANY document, or are they just a couple of guys hanging around FactCheck.orgs office, or are they political operators? What are their bona fides? FactCheck.org doesnt say. Wonder why?
Well, I found out. The two FactCheck.org employees who were granted access to Obamas bogus Certification of Live Birth (COLB) are NOT document examiners or experts. Joe Miller has a Ph. D. in Political Philosophy so hes a political operative while Jess Henig has an M.A. in English Literature Im not sure her dye-job is a political or esthetic statement. They are a couple of partisan Obots just what youd expect Jess took the photos presented on their webpage and did all of the writing, while Bob basically held the COLB open for Jess to photograph suitable work for a Ph. D.
http://www.therightsideoflife.com/2009/11/24/eligibility-update-factcheck-org-doesnt-do-f... 4/23/2010
The Right Side of Life Eligibility Update: FactCheck.org Doesnt Do Forensics; NH So... Page 3 of 58
Those two are completely unqualified to perform any kind of forensic examination of any document, and FactCheck.org knows it and so do Henig and Miller. FactCheck does say their, representatives got a chance to spend some time with the birth certificate, and we can attest to the fact that it is real and three-dimensional and resides at the Obama headquarters in Chicago. In my mind, that clearly shows they were working with and for the Obama Campaign and that Obama and his people are involved in this lie. Again, as Ive said before, these individuals may be very well credentialed in their chosen fields, but it hardly seems fitting that individuals who are not trained in the science of document forensics like four otherwise credentialed examiners have been could possibly have a trained opinion of the documents legitimacy. Further, as certain opposition commenters have pointed out many times over, the page that allegedly speaks to the authenticity of the document can lead the casual observer to believe that quotes from the HI Department of Health are directly related to the certification allegedly on hand with FactCheck.org. This is very much of a conclusory lead, as the HI DoH has never made any direct connection between what they have on file versus what FactCheck.org claims to have on hand. There is no receipt of any such transaction ever having occurred back in 2007 and nobody but the above two individuals have come forward to actually physically handle the document (regardless of FactCheck.orgs supposed willingness to allow such an inspection). Remember this is the only direct evidence that has ever been claimed to be originally sourced to speak on anything regarding Mr. Obamas background. And even this is hardly a direct source; it is a short-form version of a long-form birth certificate that could very well indicate a birth registration of an immigrant (see Sun Yat-sen for such an example). Following up on a story concerning New Hampshire State Rep. Lawrence Rappaport inquiring with the Secretary of State regarding Mr. Obamas legitimate candidacy on the ballot in the State, The Post & Email reports on some additional details: In an email to supporters, Rappaport reports what transpired: Well, heres the sad news. Representative Vita, her husband and I met with New Hampshire Attorney General Michael Delaney and his assistant yesterday (Friday) at 10 am. We wanted an investigation for potential fraud on either Obama or the Democratic Partly based mostly on our contention that since Obama ran for President in New Hampshire when we believe he was not eligible, we believe fraud was committed on the citizens of New Hampshire. We based our suspicions and allegations on:
http://www.therightsideoflife.com/2009/11/24/eligibility-update-factcheck-org-doesnt-do-f... 4/23/2010
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The search of the records of the Office of Passport Services has been completed and has resulted in the retrieval of six documents that are respcmsive: , to your request. These documents have been reviewed and the results are set .forth in the accompanying letter (with enclosures) of Jonathan M. Rolbin, . Director.
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In reply refer to: CA/PPT/L/LE - Case Control Number: 200900535 Pamela Barnett 2541 Warrego Way Sacramento, CA 95826 Dear Ms. Barnett: The following is in response to your request to the Department of State dated January 2,2009, requesting the release of material under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 5 552). We have completed a search for records responsive to your request. The search resulted in the retrieval of six documents that are responsive to your request. After careful review of these documents, we have determined that that all six documents may be released in full. We did not locate a 1965 passport application referenced in an application for amendment of passport that is included in the released documents. Many passport applications and other non-vital records fiom that period were destroyed during the 1980s in accordance with guidance fi-om the General Services Administration. Passport records typically consist of applications for United States passports and supporting evidence of United States citizenship. Passport records do not include evidence of travel such as entrancelexit stamps, visas, residence permits, etc. since this information is entered into the passport book after issuance.
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(If a n y of the a b o v e - m e n t r o n e d a c t s or c o n d r t r o n s h a v e b e e n p e r f o r m e d b y or a p p l y t o t h e a p p l r c a n t . o r to a n y o t h e r p e r s o n inc l u d e d or t o be r n c l u d e d rn the p a s s p o r t , t h e p o r t i o n w h ~ c h p p l i e s s h o u l d b e s t r u c k o u t , a n d a s u p p l e m e n t a r y e r p l s n a t o r y s t a t e m e i t a under o a t h ( o r ajflrrnatron) b y t h e p e r s o n t o w h o m t h e portron rs a p p l r c a b l e s h o u l d be a t t a c h e d and m a d e a part o f t h i s application.)
I solemnly swear (affirm) that the statements herein made are true and that I have not previously a s k e d to have t h e s e additional persons included in my passport; that they are not now in p o s s e s s i o n of valid p a s s p o r t s , and chat they h a v e not ma& application for p a s s p o r t s and been refused.
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( I f m y o f the above-mentioned a c t s or c o n d i t i o n s have been perfomled by or apply t o t h e applicont, or t o any other person i n c l v d e d in t h e passport or documentation, t h e portion which a p p l i e s should be struck out, and a sup k m e n t a r y e x p l a n ~ t o r ~ statement under o a t h ( o r a f f i r m a t i o n ) by t h e person t o whom t h e portron i s applrcable should b e otrached and m a J a ~ u r o f t h i s a p p l i c a t i o n . ) t
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CASE #34-2012-80001048 EXHIBIT 10
Never Vetted, Unlawful President, The Loophole in Our Democracy, By CPT Pamela Barnett, USA Retired Chapter 3 Working Copy, Copyright 2012, All Rights Reserved
Chapter 3 Never Vetted Obama Never Vetted for Constitional Requirements or Even His Legal Right to Work in the U.S., Was it Required?
IntroductionNo Congressional Enforceable Requirement (Law) to Vet Constitutional Qualification of President/Vice President Elect The 111th Congress and Electors Never Vetted Obamas Constitutional Qualification No Federal Agency Vetted Obama No State Secretary of State or Election Official Vetted Obama No U.S. President and Senator Illinois State Senator wasnt vetted Conclusion No One in any Official Capacity Has Seen Proof of Natural Born Citizenship or any type of Citizenship
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The following documents had prompted my request for the previous document. It is from the Office of Personnel Management (Federal Employees) webpage which discusses who must pass a background investigation. Ironically OPM requires
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investigations of White House staff working for the President, but did not require that the President, Vice President, Senators or Representatives be investigated by any of the agencies that perform background investigations including the FBI. Consequently, Obama did not undergo a background check as a U.S. Senator or for the Office of the President. (Documents appear on next page and pages 2 and 3 of the document are left out for brevity. Underlining done for emphasis by author.) The OPM claims pride in safeguarding the country as a result of the background checks the perform, but who is checking on the federally elected officials?
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This email from Representative McClintocks office also supports the fact that no birth certificate or I-9 Form are required to start working as U.S. Representative or Senator. Consequently, the current acting President could be an illegal alien and not legally able to work in the United States and we wouldnt know it. If Congress does not do their job of enforcing the Constitutional requirements for POTUS, Vice POTUS, Senators and Representatives, there very well could be non-citizens working as our elected federal officials.
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This only left the vetting of Obama to Congress. Did they vet Obama? No, they did not. The press had the option to vet Obama, but failed to do so as well. Congress vetted Senator John McCain with Senate Resolution 511 and McCain provided a copy of his original Panama birth certificate. They however did nothing to investigate Obama even though he failed to provide an original birth certificate for their viewing and admitted that he had a foreign citizen father. No one in Congress has ever reported to have seen a certified copy of Obamas original birth certificate. You will see the common theme of failing to vet Obamas Constitutional qualifications properly. As evident in Congresss passing un-Constitutional laws, the members do not understand or care about upholding the Constitution especially the NATURAL BORN CITIZEN requirement to be POTUS. It is not a surprise that even Senator Diane Feinstein only states Obama is a citizen and makes no statement that Obama is a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN. Feinstein and many other congressmen also say Obama is qualified because of the 14th Amendment even though that amendment makes no reference to Natural Born Citizen. Other Congressmen repeatedly referred to Obamas online Hawaii Certification of Live Birth as proof he was born in Hawaii and proof he is a Natural Born Citizen. It is frightening that Americas leaders would be so nave in the age of altering online photo images and producing forged birth certificates. Some Congressmen just say that he is qualified because he is a citizen and completely ignore the Natural Born Citizen requirement such as Senator Diane Feinstein who is both on the Intelligence and the Judiciary committees. Some also reference the unsworn statement of Dr. Chiyome Fukino, of the Hawaii Department of Health as evidence when she does not have the qualifications to make the determination of whether Obama was born in Hawaii or if he is a Natural Born Citizen. Recently, Hawaii Governor Abercrombie stated publicly that he could not find or produce an original long form birth certificate for Obama so this means that Fukino lied when she had seen an original birth certificate and many in Congress and millions of citizen relied on her unsworn statements. Also an embarrassment to our country is that U.S. congressmen relied on online and political organizations for proof that Obama is legally qualified to be POTUS. The following letters will further prove that Congress NEVER VETTED Obama. NOT ONE PERSON IN CONGRESS SAW A REAL BIRTH CERTIFICATE FOR OBAMA. A birth certificate would be the starting point to establish Natural Born Citizenship. To note, head of the DNC Nancy Pelosi, who endorsed Obama as being Constitutionally qualified, failed to respond to my letters and emails. Senator
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McCain also failed to answer some of his constituents in writing regarding the eligibility issue.
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And I thought that Congress was supposed to vet the President elect? Senator Kyl seems to think that a married couple from California with no access to Obamas records is capable of vetting Obama. The site does have a disclaimer that you cannot rely upon their non-legally binding opinions.
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RICHARD Unlawful President, The Loophole in Our Democracy, By CPT Pamela Barnett, USA Retired Never Vetted,SHELBY ALABAMA Chapter 3 Working Copy, Copyright 2012, All Rights Reserved
WASHINGTON,
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Ms. T e r r i Storm ~resident/CED Storm Consulting Group 4524 Park Avenue Bessenler, Alabama 35022-4184 Dear Ms. Storm: -fdrtaking -the t i m e t o i - m t a c t -me-outPresident-elect Thaw Barack Obamals citizenship status, I always appreciate hearing from my constituents. Under the United S t a t e s Constitution, Section 1 of Article I1 contains a clause that states: "No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United S t a t e s , at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the O f f i c e of President; neither shall any Person be e l i g i b l e to that Office w h o ahall. slot have attained t o the Age of t h i r t y five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United state^.^
Many have contacted me regarding the numerous claims and lawsuits circulating on the i n t e r n e t asserting that Obama is not a natural horn. c i t i z e n , and therefore ineligible to become United States President. However, President-elect Obama ha~lpresented h i a b i r t h certificate, showing that he was born in Hawaii, and it has been verified and confirmed by Hawaiian o f f i c i a 2 a . Additionally, t h e Supreme Court has declined to act on any of the cases contesting Obamats citizenship. On January 8 , 20D9, Members of Congress were given the opportunity to c o n t e s t the iesue in a j o i n t session of Congress, but no such obj e c y h w a s r s s e d during t G -meeting , By-all acc&&, President-elect Barack Obama meats those requirements. Please be assured that I will continue to monitor the situation should further
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Thank you again for contacting me. If X may be of any further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Sincerely,
Richard Shelby
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Never Vetted, Unlawful President, The Loophole in Our Democracy, By CPT Pamela Barnett, USA Retired JEFF SESSIONS Chapter 3 Working Copy, Copyright 2012, All Rights Reserved AfASAMA
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As you are aware, stories have circulated that call i n t ~ question President Qbama's 7itizmship. Additionally, various lawsuits have b m filed alleging that Obama is not a natural e born citizen of the United States, and therefore is conshtionaIIy ineligible for the office of president. However, in June 2008, hsident Obama released a digitally scanned image ofhis birth certificate, and Hawaii's Director ofthe State Department of Hdth, Chiyome Fukimo, has verified its authenticity.
As you may know, on January 8,2009, Congress certified and d i e d the Electoral College results that verified President Obama's election as the next president of the United
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The office of the presidency should be held in high regard and the president treated with respect, no matter who occupies the position. As we move forward, Americans should expect Congress and the president to work together to iind substantive solutions to the pressing issues
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Thank you again for writing. Please do not hesitate to contact me or a member of my staff if we may ever be of assistance t~ you.
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With all of the evidence uncovered regarding the lack of vetting of Federal candiates on the ballot, I then thought that the states would be the same way and my assumptions proved to be correct. The next emails and documents prove that no one in the State of Illinois in any official capacity was required to view a birth certifcate for Barack Hussein Obama in his bid and election for the Illinois State Senate. Obama was also not required to complete a Federal I-9 Form to be able to receive pay and benefits. Consequently, again Obama could have been a noncitizen or illegal alien or non-citizen when serving as an Illinois Senator which is against the Illinois Constitution and Illinois election laws.
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The Secretaries of State in each state are ultimately responsible for the elections in their respective state. None of the states in the country vetted Obamas Constitutional qualifications because they do not normally do that. Most SOSs stated it was the political partys job and a few said cited election officials. The Illiniois Secretary of States Office states that The Secretary of State does not perform any type of background investigation on candidates. The Secretary of State does not verify identity, age, residency, and citizenship of candidates.
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The Illinois Board of Elections does not qualify candiates for state or federal office as well. See their responsibilities on next page.
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http://www.elections.state.il.us/AboutTheBoard/BoardFunctions.aspx 3/18/2010
The Illinois State Assembly which governs Illinois State Senators and Representatives also does nothing to verify that their elected represtatives meet the legal requirements under the Illinois Constitution. See next page.
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Finally, instead of our Department of Justice assuring the American people that Obama is who he says he is, they represent or assist him in court to continue to block access to his vital records more on this in the Obstruction of Justice Chapter. Millions of Americans, including soldiers, Airmen, Marines and Coastguardsmen, have doubts as well as evidenced by the many polls regarding Obamas birth place. A majority does not know where he was born or if hes a legal President. The DOJ fails to state that Obama had been vetted by the government; they instead agree and site the unlawful ruling made by Judge James Robertson which states the citizenry (who has absolutely no access to any of Obamas records) had vetted Obama through blogs and Twitter. See DOJ citation below.
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Strunk v. Department of State and Department of Homeland Security Case No. 1:08-CV-02234 (RJL)
The DOJ states that they are not responsible for vetting alleged fraud crimes relating to Obamas Constitutional qualifications even though they are. look at the DOJs website for crimes they investigate. The DOJ instead states the Federal Election Commission is responsible for investigating which is untrue. See next page for letter that will also be filed under the Obstruction Chapter. See below for list of crimes that the FBI, which is under the DOJ, investigates. From the page What we investigate -Criminal Priorities 4. Public Corruption - Government Fraud - Election Fraud - Foreign Corrupt Practices http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/what_we_investigate
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If the FBI would have done a background investigation on Obama, just on public records alone, they would have found a highly suspect background check results of Obama which would have merited looking into for potential money laundering and other fraud crimes. Author includes full list of names and address of the following report so that other researchers may be able to shed some light on this report that closely mirrors the report given by Neil Sankey, a California licensed private investigator and a former Scotland Yard detective. Many of these entries disappeared after they were made public. More on this in the Obstruction Chapter.
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As laid out in the Chapter Never Vetted, it is absolutely clear that no one any official government position in Illinois or the Federal government has seen proof that Obama is even able to legally work in the United State, yet be a U.S. Senator or President.
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CASE #34-2012-80001048 EXHIBIT 11
2012 Presidential Elections
The Party for Socialism and Liberation is running candidates in the
Peta Lindsay
PSL Candidate for President
PSL Candidate for Vice President
Yari Osorio
The Party for Socialism and Liberation is proud to announce that our party is fielding a slate of candidates for the office of president and vice president of the United States in the 2012 elections.
PSL member and Howard University graduate Peta Lindsay is the PSLs presidential candidate. PSL member Yari Osorio, an immigrant from Colombia now living in New York City, is the vice-presidential candidate. The party also will run candidates in various cities across the country. To learn more about the PSLs participation in the 2012 elections, visit www.VotePSL.org.
Meet Peta Lindsay

Lindsay, 27, is a founding member of the PSL and a member of the PSLs Central Committee. For over a decade, she has helped lead countless demonstrations across the country against imperialist wars, racism, budget cuts, tuition hikes, police brutality, anti-LGBT bigotry, and in support of immigrant rights, womens rights and the Palestinian peoples right to self-determination, and has been a tireless advocate for the rights of working people and for socialism.
Meet Yari Osorio

Osorio, 26, has helped to lead dozens of anti-war and anti-racist demonstrations in New York City and Washington, D.C. As a student at John Jay CUNY, he co-founded Justice in Action, a social justice club on campus, and helped organize for students rights across CUNY campuses. He helped lead the PSLs campaign to stop the New York Police Departments racist stop and frisk policy targeting Black and Latino working-class communities.
Chicago: 773-920-7590 Washington, D.C.: 202-234-2828 New York: 212-694-8762 Los Angeles: 323-810-3380 San Francisco: 415-821-6171
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Posted on February 8, 2011 by the State Central Committee
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SECRETARY OF STATE LIST OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES CALLED "UNLAWFUL" AFTER PARTY'S CANDIDATES LEFT OFF JUNE 5 PRIMARY BALLOT SACRAMENTO The Secretary of State's office has omitted two of the four Presidential candidates on the Peace and Freedom Party's primary ballot and the independent party is demanding to know why. Join the Peace and Freedom Party's fund-raising campaign! Click here to drop $20.12 on us in 2012.
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A NEWS CONFERENCE is scheduled at 10 a.m. Thursday (2-9-12) at the SOS office (11th & O Streets) to provide details. Peace and Freedom Party State Chairperson C. T. Weber will be present. SOS Debra Bowen has yet to respond, and in a statement issued today, Weber cites Elections Code sections that specify how presidential primary candidates are supposed to be selected by the Secretary of State, and suggests that code sections covering other parties may have improperly been applied to the Peace and Freedom Party candidates. "No Secretary of State has ever overruled our party's report listing our primary candidates," says Weber, "until this mistaken decision by Secretary Bowen." He also cites a failure by the Secretary of State to consult party county chairs, as specifically required in the Elections Code, and accuses Bowen of failing to consider as required by law the letter submitted to her by Weber on behalf of the Peace and Freedom Party State Executive Committee that listed all four candidates for inclusion. In the list announced Monday night, Bowen included Stewart Alexander and Rocky Anderson on the ballot, but omitted Peta Lindsay and Stephen Durham. Weber was unable to get an explanation when he went to the Secretary of State's Sacramento office the next morning, and reports that officials in the office refused to divulge what criteria Bowen used to make her choices, who was present at the meeting, where the criteria were developed, and whether Bowen herself was present at the meeting. Richard Becker of San Francisco, a spokesman for the Peta Lindsay campaign, calls the omission of her name "absolutely unjustifiable under the law." Candidate Stephen Durham of New York City says "I strongly object to the attempt by the California Secretary of State to steal away the rights of those who want to vote for a bona fide socialist feminist candidate for president." "Our voters are seriously considering four candidates, and they deserve to have the Secretary of State follow the law and list all four on the primary ballot," Weber said. WATCH THESE LIVE FEEDS Occupy Fresno Occupy Los Angeles Occupy Wall Street October 2011 Coalition (Washington)
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-30STATEMENT OF C.T. WEBER, PEACE AND FREEDOM PARTY CALIFORNIA STATE CHAIR February 8, 2012 Late on February 6th Secretary of State Debra Bowen's office released her list of candidates for
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President of the United States who would appear on the primary election ballots of the various parties in the presidential preference section. Breaking the precedent of the previous 36 years, this list for the first time omits many or most of the candidates reported to her by the state chairs of some of the political parties, including two of the four candidates that I reported to her were found by our State Executive Committee to be serious seekers of the Peace and Freedom Party nomination. (While Stewart Alexander and Rocky Anderson were listed, Stephan Durham and
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Peta Lindsay were omitted.) Visiting her office yesterday, I found that her staff was determined to keep secret the criteria used by the Secretary of State in selecting her choices for the ballot, refused to tell me who attended the meeting at which the criteria were determined, refused to tell me whether Bowen was present at that meeting, and refused to justify in any way her omission of candidates who are clearly serious about obtaining the Peace and Freedom Party nomination, and generally considered serious candidates by party activists (and by their opponents). I was told, to my astonishment, that Bowen could list any names she pleased without any logical criteria at all. This is not what it says in the elections code. In fact, the Elections Code (section 6720) states that the Secretary of State shall include the names of candidates recognized throughout California as active candidates for the Peace and Freedom Party nomination for President. All four of the names submitted are in fact those of candidates who are recognized, and have some support, from all areas of California, as well as various other parts of the country. This may not be apparent from reports in the commercial media, but Peace and Freedom Party activists have never depended on the commercial media for their information about presidential candidacies, as the commercial media rarely mention our candidates at all. The publications of various groups on the left, the blogs and websites and e-mail lists used by those on the left to communicate with each other, and communication at meetings and rallies through word-of-mouth and leaflets, are the "media" used by Peace and Freedom members to learn about the various candidates who seek our presidential nomination. It appears possible that the Secretary of State may have unlawfully developed a list of criteria for selecting recognized candidates that is the same for candidates in all parties. In fact, the criteria in the election code differ for each party. For example, coverage in the news media is a legal criterion in the American Independent Party (EC section 6520), but is purposely omitted in the Peace and Freedom Party section of the code. Qualifying for funding under the Federal Elections Campaign Act is included in the criteria for the Democratic Party (EC section 6041), but is purposely omitted in the Peace and Freedom Party section of the code. The unjustifiable secrecy being maintained around the Secretary of State's list of criteria may conceal the mistaken and unlawful development of a common list of criteria for all parties, and if this is the case, the Secretary of State should come clean, and admit the mistake, while adding the improperly omitted candidates to the list for the ballot. The Elections Code (section 6721) provides that the Secretary of State shall ask the State Chair and the County Chairs of the Peace and Freedom Party for information regarding presidential candidates, and states that any information they wish to submit "will be considered by the Secretary of State." In fact, in 2012, the Secretary of State failed to make this request of the various County Chairs, although their names and contact information are available to her, and obviously failed to consider the information submitted by the State Chair on behalf of the State Executive Committee of the party. This is not a choice available to the Secretary of State under the law, but is a lapse and a failure to follow the law. While those omitted may circulate petitions among Peace and Freedom Party voters to have their names added, this is a serious burden that is not supposed to be imposed on generally recognized candidates. It is highly unfair to list two of the recognized candidates, but force the other two of them to put in substantial work and money to obtain the primary ballot access the first two have without this work and expenditure. The Elections Code (section 6722) states that the Secretary of State may add to her announced selections after the announcement is made. I strongly urge Secretary of State Bowen to consider the information now being submitted to her office to demonstrate that all four of the candidates reported to her by our party as serious candidates are indeed serious candidates, and announce at the earliest possible date the addition of the two omitted candidates to the list of those who will appear on the ballot. I further urge Secretary of State Bowen, who was elected and re-elected as the candidate who would make the functioning of her office more transparent, to release her criteria for selecting candidates for the presidential preference primary, the names of those present when those criteria were developed, and how those criteria were used to select two but omit two others on the list submitted by the Peace and Freedom Party's elected leadership.--C.T. Weber, California State Chair, Peace and Freedom Party
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Affidavit of Edward C. Noonan

State of California County of Yuba
I, the undersigned, do hereby swear, certify and affirm that:

1. I am over the age of 18 and am a resident of the State of California. I have personal knowledge of the facts herein, and, if called as a witness, could testify competently thereto.
2. On about Friday, March 2,2012 (about 1 1 a.m.) I called Ms. Toni Mendicino, Bay Area Freedom Socialist Party and Campaign Coordinator, on her cell phone which she included on her below email (4 15-730-2917) and asked her if the following emails were true and valid copies of the emails that she sent to the CA Secretary of State and was the accompanying email a true and valid copy of the reply she received from the CA Secretary of State. She told me the copies were true and valid. Previously (a few days earlier on Feb 28,2012 9:45 am) I had sent an email to her with the two emails (see below) asking for confirmation of them being valid and true. She had not responded. When I called her on her cell phone, she knew who I was, because she had already heard from me via an email. So when I spoke with her on the phone she knew what emails I was talking about... and she confirmed to me that the emails were true and valid.
3. This is the email that Toni Mendicino confirmed to me that the Secretary of State Ofice sent to her:
From: "Secretary of State, Constituent Aflairs" <Constituent.Affairs,~~.so.s.ca.~ov> To: t mendicinoG3vahoo.com Sent: Friday, February 17,2012 1:29 PM Subject: RE: Reinstate Peace and Freedom Party candidates now!
Dear h4s. Mendicino: Thank pozr for contacting the Secretary o f State about the individuals in [he Peace and Freedom Par& who were not incltrded in the Secretary ofstate's Generally Recognized Presidential Candidates List for the June 5. 2012, Presidential Primary Election. To determine whether a person is general!^^ recognized" as activel~~ runningfor president, the Secretary of State's ofice looks ut whether a candidate is actively running a presidential campaign, such as hmring a campaign ofice, a campaign website, making Federal Election CommissionJilings. participating in debatav, and being referred to in the news media. Absent embarking on or completing am1 ofthese basic tasks, aperson certainly cozrld not he considered a "general(vrecognized" candidate. In addition, the Secretaty of Sfate's ofice reviewed Peta Lindray!~ n~ehsite trlhere the candidule states she is 27 years old. Since the United States Constittition states "...neither shall am?Person be eligible to that Ofice who shall not have attained to the Age of t h i r ~ fwe Years...", Peta L i n d ~ q does not qualilii, as a presidential candidatefor the June 5. 2012. Presidential Primary Election. People in any political purr?, who still wish to he included on the California ballot as a presidential candidate may circzrlate nomination petitions, the procedure for which is included in the QualEfication and Requirements document,found on the Secretaq~ of State's website at [ d f The Secretary of State takes very seriozrsl~l responsibilit~~ ensuring fhe in/ecgri&of the ballot and the enlire electoral process is the of maintained.
Legislative and Constituent Affairs Secretary of State
4. This is the email that Toni Mendicino confumed to me that she sent to the Secretary of State:
From: Toni Mendicino [mailto:t mendicinoG~~ahoo.com] Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2012 4:36 PM To: Secretav of State, Constituent Afairs Cc: Secretary of State Bowen Subject: Reinstate Peace and Freedom Party candidates now!
Dear Secretary of State Bowen,
I spoke on February 9 with your analyst Philly Crosby about this matter, rather unsatisjbctorily; she instructed me to sendyou a letter. I am the Bay Area Freedom Socialist 2012 Presidential Campaign coordinator and strongly protest your exclusion of our candidate, Stephen Durham, from the Peace and Freedom Party primary ballot, along with Peta Linhay. An egregious mistake has been made by your ofice in this decision and I urge you to rectl@ it immediately as is in your legal purview and as is your responsibility as the Secretary of State.
Our candidate most certainly does meet the Calijbrnia election code criteria and has thefull backing of the Peace and Freedom Party. We have not received an explanationfor your arbitrary decision despite mmerous inquiries, which is.$-anklyunacceptable. I also request that I be given a response about how and when you will reverse this illegal action. Whatyou did violated our rights as working people to votefor the candidates we support and is part of a national context of attempts to deny the right to vote to millions ofpoor, working and immigrantpeople. Do you really want to be on that side of history? This situation is particularly ironic given your 2011 Congressional race slogan, "Democracy For All, Right Here in America !"I hope you will do the right thing and list all the Peace and Freedom Party candidates on the ballot, and I lookforward to hearing backfrom you about this timely issue. Sincerely, Toni Mendicino Bay Area Freedom Socialist Party and Campaign Coordinator 115- 730-29I 7 (cell)
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Edward C. Noonan <ednoonan7@gmail.com>
Ed, As AIP member can you send this request to Toni

Edward C. Noonan <ednoonan7@gmail.com> To: "P. B." <pb-realestate@yahoo.com> Pamela, Mon, Mar 12,2012 at 9:ll AM
My notarized statement is as follows:

On about Friday, March 2, 2012 (about 11 a.m.) I called Ms. Toni Mendicino, Bay Area Freedom Socialist Party and Campaign Coordinator, on her cell phone which she included on her below email (415-7302917) and asked her if the following emails were true and valid copies of the emails that she sent to the CA Secretary of State and was the accompanying email a true and valid copy of the reply she received from the CA Secretary of State. She told me the copies were true and valid. Previously (a few days earlier on Feb 28, 2012 9:45 am) I had sent an email to her with the two ernails (see below) asking for confirmation of them being valid and true. She had not responded. When I called her on her cell phone, she knew who I was, because she had already heard from me via an email. So when I spoke with her on the phone she knew what emails I was talking about... and she confirmed to me that the emails were true and valid.
I have enclosed a copy of the email that I sent to her in this notarized affidavit as well.
As soon as I have these emails and this "statement of mine" notarized, 1 will send you a copy of that notarization. Edward C. Noonan President 2012 from: P. B. pb realestate@vahoo.com to: "Edward C. Noonan" <ednoonan7@qmail.corn> date: Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 7:21 AM subject: Re: any affidavit? can you write a statement and get it notarized regarding her confirming the email? please try to get it to me by tomorrow morning at the latest. Thanks, pamela
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"Secretary of State, Constituent Affairs" ~Constituent.Affairs@sos.ca.qov~ To: t mendicino@vahoo.com Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 1.29 PM Subject: RE: Reinstate Peace and Freedom Party candidates now!
Dear Ms. Mendicino: Thank you for contacting the Secretary of State about the individuals in the Peace and Freedom Party who were not included in the Secretary of State's Generally Recognized Presidential Candidates List for the June 5, 2012, Presidential Primary Election.
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To determine whether a person is "generally recognized" as actively running for president, the Secretary of State's office looks at whether a candidate is actively running a presidential campaign, such as having a campaign office, a campaign website, making Federal Election Commission filings, participating in debates, and being referred to in the news media. Absent embarking on or completing any of these basic tasks, a person certainly could not be considered a "generally recognized" candidate. In addition, the Secretary of State's office reviewed Peta Lindsay's website where the candidate states she is 27 years old. Since the United States Constitution states "...neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years...", Peta Lindsay does not qualify as a presidential candidate for the June 5, 2012, Presidential Primary Election. People in any political party who still wish t o be included on the California ballot as a presidential candidate may circulate nomination petitions, the procedure for which is included in the Qualification and Requirements document, found on the Secretary of State's website at www.sos.ca.gov/elections/2012-elections/~une-prima~/pdf/minor-pa~y-president-2012.pdf. The Secretary of State takes very seriously the responsibility of ensuring the integrity of the ballot and the entire electoral process is maintained. Sincerely, Legislative and Constituent Affairs Secretary of State
From: Toni Mendicino [mailto:t mendicino@vahoo.com] Sent: Saturday, February 1 , 2012 4:36 PM 1 To: Secretary of State, Constituent Affairs Cc: Secretary of State Bowen Subject: Reinstate Peace and Freedom Party candidates now!
Dear Secretary of State Bowen,
I spoke on February 9 with your analyst Philly Crosby about this matter, rather unsatisfactorily; she instructed me to send you a letter. I am the Bay Area Freedom Socialist 2012 Presidential Campaign coordinator and strongly protest your exclusion of our candidate, Stephen Durham, from the Peace and Freedom Party primary ballot, along with Peta Lindsay. An egregious mistake has been made by your office in this decision and I urge you to rectify it immediately as is in your legal purview and as is your responsibility as the Secretary of State.
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Our candidate most certainly does meet the California election code criteria and has the full backing of the Peace and Freedom Party. We have not received an explanation for your arbitrary decision despite numerous inquiries, which is frankly unacceptable. I also request that 1 be given a response about how and when you will reverse this illegal action. What you did violated our rights as working people to vote for the candidates we support and is part of a national context of attempts to deny the right to vote to millions of poor, working and immigrant people. Do you really want to be on that side of history? This situation is particularly ironic given your 2011 Congressional race slogan, "Democracy For All, Right Here in America !" I hope you will do the right thing and list all the Peace and Freedom Party candidates on the ballot, and I look forward to hearing back from you about this timely issue. Sincerely, Toni Mendicino Bay Area Freedom Socialist Party and Campaign Coordinator 415-730-2917 (cell)
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Request for notarized documentation

Edward C. Noonan <ednoonan7@gmail.com> To: t~rnendicino@yahoo.com Tue, Feb 28,2012 at 9:42 AM
MS Mendicino, Iwas forwarded the below email because the American Independent Party was also not treated lawfully by the Secretary of State. Could you please notarize the correspondence between you and the Secretary of State as being a true and correct copy? Ican reimburse you for your expense. We can pay to have it mailed or possibly have someone meet you depending on where you livelwork. You can send it to: Edward C. Noonan 1713 11th Ave Olivehurst, CA 95961 My contact phone is 530-845-5186. The sooner the better, because we want to address her illegal activities with her immediately. Sincerely, Edward C. Noonan From: "Secretary of State, Constituent Affairs" ~Constituent.Affairs@sos.ca.gov~ To: t mendicino~vahoo.com Sent: Friday, February 17,2012 1:29 PM Subject: RE: Reinstate Peace and Freedom Party candidates now!
Dear Ms. Mendicino: Thank you for contacting the Secretary of State about the individuals in the Peace and Freedom Party who were not included in the Secretary of State's Generally Recognized Presidential Candidates List for the June 5, 2012, Presidential Primary Election. To determine whether a person is "generally recognized" as actively running for president, the Secretary of State's office looks at whether a candidate is actively running a presidential campaign,
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such as having a campaign office, a campaign website, making Federal Election Commission filings, participating in debates, and being referred to in the news media. Absent embarking on or completing any of these basic tasks, a person certainly could not be considered a "generally recognized" candidate. In addition, the Secretary of State's office reviewed Peta Lindsay's website where the candidate states she is 27 years old. Since the United States Constitution states "...neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years...", Peta Lindsay does not qualify as a presidential candidate for the June 5, 2012, Presidential Primary Election. People in any political party who still wish t o be included on the California ballot as a presidential candidate may circulate nomination petitions, the procedure for which is included in the Qualification and Requirements document, found on the Secretary of State's website at www.sos.ca.gov/elections/2012-elections/june-primary/pdf/minor-pa~y-president-2012.pdf~ The Secretary of State takes very seriously the responsibility of ensuring the integrity of the ballot and the entire electoral process is maintained. Sincerely, Legislative and Constituent Affairs Secretary of State
From: Toni Mendicino [mailto:t mendicino@ya hoo.com]
Sent: Saturday, February 11,2012 4:36 PM

To: Secretary of State, Constituent Affairs Cc: Secretary of State Bowen Subject: Reinstate Peace and Freedom Party candidates now! Dear Secretary of State Bowen,
I spoke on February 9 with your analyst Philly Crosby about this matter, rather unsatisfactorily; she instructed me to send you a letter. I am the Bay Area Freedom Socialist 2012 Presidential Campaign coordinator and strongly protest your exclusion of our candidate, Stephen Durham, from the Peace and Freedom Party primary ballot, along with Peta Lindsay. An egregious mistake has been made by your office in this decision and I urge you to rectify it immediately as is in your legal purview and as is your responsibility as the Secretary of State.
Our candidate most certainly does meet the California election code criteria and has the full backing of the Peace and Freedom Party. We have not received an explanation for your arbitrary decision despite numerous inquiries, which is frankly unacceptable. I also request
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that I be given a response about how and when you will reverse this illegal action. What you did violated our rights as working people to vote for the candidates we support and is part of a national context of attempts to deny the right to vote to millions of poor, working and immigrant people. Do you really want to be on that side of history? This situation is particularly ironic given your 2011 Congressional race slogan, "Democracy For All, Right Here in America !" I hope you will do the right thing and list all the Peace and Freedom Party candidates on the ballot, and I look forward to hearing back from you about this timely issue. Sincerely, Toni Mendicino Bay Area Freedom Socialist Party and Campaign Coordinator 415-730-2917 (cell)
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http://puzo1.blogspot.com/2012/02/all-that-is-wrong-with-georgia-state.html All That Is Wrong with Georgia State Judge Michael M. Malihis Decision that Putative President Obama Is a Natural Born Citizen
All That Is Wrong with Georgia State Judge Michael M. Malihis Decision that Putative President Obama Is a Natural Born Citizen By Mario Apuzzo, Esq. February 3, 2012 Georgia State Administrative Law Judge, Michael M. Malihi, issued his decision on Friday, February 3, 2012, finding that putative President, Barack Obama, is eligible as a candidate for the presidential primary election under O.C.G.A. Sec. 21-2-5(b). The decision can be read here, http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com/2012/02/judge-malihi-rules-against-plaintiffs.html . I must enter my objection to this decision which is not supported by either fact or law. The Court held: For purposes of this analysis, this Court considered that President Barack Obama was born in the United States. Therefore, as discussed in Arkeny [sic meant Ankeny], he became a citizen at birth and is a natural born citizen. But there is no evidence before the Court that Obama was born in the United States. The court can only rest its finding of fact on evidence that is part of the court record. The judge tells us that he decided the merits of the plaintiffs claims. But he does not tell us in his decision what evidence he relied upon to consider[] that Obama was born in the United States. The judge considered that Obama was born in the United States. What does considered mean? Clearly, it is not enough for a court to consider evidence or law. It must make a finding after having considered facts and law. The judge simply does not commit to any finding as to where Obama was born. Using the word considered is a cop out from actually addressing the issue. Additionally, we know from his decision that neither Obama nor his attorney appeared at the hearing let alone introduced any evidence of Obamas place of birth. We also know from the decision that the judge ruled that plaintiffs documents introduced into evidence were of little, if any, probative value, and thus wholly insufficient to support Plaintiffs allegations. Surely, the court did not use those insufficient documents as evidence of Obamas place of birth. Nor does the judge tell us that he used those documents for any such purpose. The judge also does not tell us that the court took any judicial notice of any evidence (not to imply that it could). The judge did find that Obama has been certified by the state executive committee of a political party. But with the rules of evidence of superior court applying, this finding does not establish anyones place of birth. Hence, what evidence did the judge have to rule that Obama is born in the United States? The answer is none. The court did not engage in its own thoughtful and reasoned analysis of the meaning of an Article II natural born Citizen, but rather relied only upon Ankeny v. Governor of the State of Indiana, 916 N.E.2d 678 (Ind. Ct.App. 2009), transfer denied, 929 N.E.2d 789 (2010), a state-court decision which erred in how it defined a natural born Citizen. The court says that Ankeny is persuasive. The court does not show us why Ankeny is persuasive other than to just provide some quotations from the decision. On the contrary, upon close analysis, we can see that Ankeny is far from persuasive on the definition of a natural born Citizen. The courts decision can only be as sound as the Ankeny decision may be. But an analysis of that decision shows that it was incorrectly decided as to its definition of an Article II natural born Citizen. Presidential eligibility is a national issue. Under our Constitution, like the States do not have power to naturalize citizens, they also do not have power to change, add, or diminish the meaning of an Article II natural born Citizen. See U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton, 514 U.S. 779 (1995) (states have no
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authority to change, add, or diminish the eligibility requirements for members of Congress). Moreover, as naturalization needs uniformity, so does the citizenship standard needed to be met by those wishing to be eligible to be President. Hence, any state court decision on the meaning of a natural born Citizen is not binding on the nation in determining who is eligible to be President. Such a decision can only be ultimately made by the U.S. Supreme Court which would make its decision the law of the entire nation. The Ankeny case is a decision of the Indiana state court and not by the U.S. Supreme Court. For this reason, the Ankeny decision is not binding on any court deciding the question of what is a natural born Citizen. But not only is the decision not binding, it also needs to be rejected for diminishing the meaning of an Article II natural born Citizen. Apart from the Ankeny decision not being binding on the national issue of what is a natural born Citizen, the decision itself should be rejected on its merits. The Constitutions text does not define a natural born Citizen. Yet, Ankeny did not even discuss what the Founders and Framers original intent was in including the natural born Citizen clause in the Constitution. It is a rule of constitutional construction that we can learn what the Founders and Framers intended by a certain term they included in the Constitution by discovering what their purpose was for including the term in that document. But the Ankeny court told us what an Article II natural born Citizen is without examining the purpose for which the Founders and Framers included that clause in Article II, Section 1. No where in the decision do we see that the court examined what the Founders and Framers intent was for inserting the clause in the Constitution. The court conducted no independent historical research or analysis regarding what the Founders and Framers intended when they wrote the natural born Citizen clause in the Constitution in 1787. In fact, no where in the decision did the court even raise the issue of the Founders and Framers intent when they wrote the clause in Article II. It provided no sources from the Founding period which in any way supports its holding. It discussed no historical records or declarations of historical figures. So its decision as to what a natural born Citizen is has no historical or legal support. The Founders and Framers placed their trust in the Laws of Nature and of Natures God. The Declaration of Independence, para. 1. They came to learn what natural law was from studying ancient history and its influence in the then modern world. They knew from studying this history and the great publicists, including Emer de Vattel who was the Founders and Framers favorite, that natural law became the law of nations. And Vattel in Section 212 of his The Law of Nations (London 1797) (1st ed. Neuchatel 1758) defined what a natural born Citizen is. There he said that the natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. The Indiana state court in Ankeny did not even discuss natural law and the law of nations. The Ankeny court just barely acknowledged Emer de Vattel. It refers to Vattel's highly influential work, The Law of Nations, as "an eighteenth century treatise" and discusses neither Vattel nor his work. Hence, it fails to understand the importance of the law of nations and Vattel to the Founders and Framers and in the founding of our nation and their drafting of our Constitution in which they included the law of nations and not the English common law as part of Article III "Laws of the United States." The court hardly knew who Emer de Vattel was. This should be an indication to anyone who has seriously studied the Obama eligibility issue of how much reliance we can place on the courts ruling as to what a natural born Citizen is. Judge Malihi also did not discuss the early naturalization statutes passed by our early Congresses. These acts are critical in understanding the definition of a natural born Citizen because so many members of the early Congresses were Founders and Framers. The significance of such a statute passed by the first Congress was, of course, the fact that many of the framers of the Constitution were Members of that first Congress, as well as the fact that the first Congresss understanding of the meaning of the terms of the Constitution was most contemporaneous in time with the documents adoption. One author has noted that of the Committee of Eleven, which first proposed to the Convention of 1787 the eligibility requirement
of being a natural born citizen, 8 of the 11 committee members were in that first Congress, and none stated objections to or disagreement with the characterization of the term natural born by statute by the Congress. Christina Lohman, Presidential Eligibility: The Meaning of the Natural-Born Citizen Clause, 36 Gonzaga Law Review 349, 371 (2000/2001). The Naturalization Acts of 1790, 1795, and 1802, prove that only a child born in the United States to U.S. citizen parents can be an Article II natural born Citizen. These acts treated children born in the United States to alien parents as aliens themselves. These acts also naturalized children born abroad to U.S. citizen parents to be in 1790 natural born citizens and then in 1795 and thereafter citizens of the United States. By analyzing these acts, we can see that the only child over whom Congress did not exercise its naturalization power was a child born in the United States to citizen parents. Hence, that child was the natural born citizen. Ankeny misread Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 162 (1875), saying that the Minor Court read Article II and the Fourteenth Amendment "in tandem," suggesting without any support that the latter somehow amended the former. It also erred when it said that Minor "left open the issue of whether a person who is born within the United States of alien parents is considered a natural born citizen." The Court did no such thing. Rather, the Court left open that question as it applies to a Fourteenth Amendment born "citizen of the United States," not an Article II "natural born Citizen." Minor told us that there is no doubt who a natural born Citizen is, telling us that it is a child born in the country of two U.S. citizen parents. That definition is based on natural law and the law of nations and not the English common law. Indeed, this confirms that the Founders and Framers gave us only one citizenship definition to be used to determine eligibility to be President. On the other hand, Minor added that there is doubt as to whether a child born in the U.S. to alien parents was even a citizen. The Framers gave Congress the power to make future citizens of the United States through naturalization. Hence, the doubts have been over the definition making persons the parents of a future natural born Citizen, not over the definition making the child of those parents a natural born Citizen. It also confounded Minor and U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898) as relying upon the English common law to define a citizen and a natural born Citizen. It said that Minor relied upon the English common law like Wong Kim Ark did when it did not do any such thing, for it relied upon natural law and the law of nations which when applied in the United States became common-law (the language that Minor used), which given the definition of a natural-born citizen that the Court provided (including the citizenship of the parents as a condition of being a natural-born citizen) could not have been English common law but rather was American common law. In order to justify its decision, Ankeny gave authority and respect to the feudal English common law (per Lord Coke and Lord Chief Justice Cockburn) on matters of U.S. citizenship and gave no such authority and respect to our own American common law which Minor showed replaced that feudal law in the new republic. In fact, there is not one word in the Minor decision which sounds in the language of the English common law, yet Ankeny said that it relied upon English common law. It distinguished Minor in footnote 12 by saying that it contemplates only scenarios where both parents are either citizens or aliens, rather in the case of President Obama, whose mother was a U.S. citizen and father was a citizen of the United Kingdom. But it did not explain how or why having one U.S. citizen parent rather than none would make any difference when applying the natural born Citizen clause. Wong Kim Ark, a Fourteenth Amendment citizenship case, answered the question left open in Minor, which question concerned whether Wong Kim Ark was a citizen of the United States, not an Article II natural born Citizen. Wong Kim Ark relied upon the English common law, which historically had been used to define British nationality and not American nationality, to define a citizen of the United States. But Ankeny mistakenly concluded that Wong Kim Ark ruled Wong Kim Ark to be a natural born Citizen rather than a citizen of the United States. Wong Kim Ark did no such thing. There is nothing in Wong Kim Ark decision that suggests that the Court declared Wong Kim Ark an Article II natural born Citizen and therefore eligible to be President. The U.S. Supreme Court in Minor v. Happersett (1875) already had told us that there was no doubt as to who could be a natural born Citizen. Since there is no doubt and if Wong Kim Ark was a natural born Citizen, the U.S. government would not
have argued that he was not even a citizen of the United States, let alone a natural born Citizen. Also, Wong Kim Ark never said that Minor was wrong in defining a natural born Citizen in the way that it did under natural law and the law of nations and not the English common law. Also, Ankeny relied strictly upon U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark and its historical sources for its decision on what a natural born Citizen is. They made a monumental declaration as to the meaning of the clause based solely upon a 1898 U.S. Supreme Court case that did not even involve any dispute regarding the meaning of a natural born Citizen and which ironically confirmed Vattels definition of a natural born Citizen as stated by Minor v. Happersett in 1875. Ankeny incorrectly took the Wong Kim Ark holding that Wong was a Fourteenth Amendment born "citizen of the United States," and even though Wong itself provides a different definition for an Article II "natural born Citizen," and even though Wong cites and accepts Minor's definition of a "natural born Citizen," the Ankeny court equated the Wong "citizen of the United States" with an Article II "natural born Citizen" and said that the Wong decision stands for such a proposition when it does not. Hence, it erroneously relied upon Wong Kim Ark, stating that the Court there declared Wong a natural born citizen when it only declared him a citizen of the United States. In Footnote 14 it said: We note the fact that the Court in Wong Kim Ark did not actually pronounce the plaintiff a 'natural born Citizen' using the Constitutions Article II language is immaterial." This is a fantastic statement given the care and precision which the Founders and Framers used with their language in drafting and adopting the Constitution, a circumstance which has always been recognized by our U.S. Supreme Court when called upon to interpret the Constitution. Additionally, Wong Kim Ark itself distinguished between a child born in the country to one or two alien parents and a child born in the country to citizen parents, telling us that while both are citizens, only the latter is a natural born Citizen." Wong said: The child of an alien, if born in the country, is as much a citizen as the natural-born child of a citizen, and by operation of the same principle. p. 22, note. Wong Kim Ark, at 666-67 (citing and quoting Binneys 1853 pamphlet on citizenship). Ankeny erroneously conflated an Article II "natural born Citizen" with a Fourteenth Amendment "citizen of the United States." Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 and other parts of the Constitution are clear in distinguishing between a natural born Citizen and a Citizen of the United States. The text of the Fourteenth Amendment defines a citizen of the United States, not a natural born Citizen. Even if we were to give them any controlling effect which they do not have, there is also nothing in the legislative debates which indicates that the amendment was designed to change the meaning of an Article II natural born Citizen. We cannot just forget about the distinction made by the Framers in Article II between a natural born Citizen and a Citizen of the United States. Just ruling someone to be a citizen of the United States does not necessarily mean that the person is a natural born Citizen, for citizens of the United States are made up of natural born Citizens and naturalized citizens of the United States. The latter are naturalized either at birth or after birth. Natural born Citizens are citizens by virtue of natural law. Other U.S. citizens are citizens by virtue of positive law which in Wong Kim Ark was by virtue of the first clause of the fourteenth amendment. Wong Kim Ark, at 686. Ankeny as did Wong Kim Ark also mistakenly relied upon Inglis v. Sailors Snug Harbor, 28 U.S. 99 (1830). What the court did is cite and quote from Justice Story who was in the minority and whose opinion was not accepted by the majority. The majority of the Court in Inglis, which included Chief Justice John Marshall, did not rely upon the English common law jus soli rule but rather the law of nation jus sanguinis rule when it held that if the demandant was born in New York after July 4, 1776, his minority incapacitated him from making any election as to which citizenship to chose and he therefore inherited the character and election and therefore the citizenship of his father (father and mother) who, if born a British subject and if he continued that national character as of the time of his sons birth, made the son British also, subject to the son renouncing the citizenship chosen for him by his British father during
minority and choosing U.S. citizenship upon becoming an adult. Id. at 124 and 126. The majority cited and relied upon Vattel when arguing that a person has a right to elect what nation to be part of in time of revolution. Id. at 122. Justice Story put forth the English common law jus soli rule for citizenship and ruled that the damandant if born in New York was an American citizen regardless of the citizenship of his parents (Id. at 164 and 170). But Justice Story was in the minority. The majority of the Court did not adopt Justice Storys opinion and reliance on the English common law. Both Ankeny and Wong Kim Ark also mistakenly relied upon that part of the dissenting opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. (19 How.) 393 (1856), which was not directed to the issue of slavery disabling blacks from being citizens but rather directed to whether we defined U.S. citizenship under natural law and the law of nations or under the English common law. This dissenting opinion did not carry the day and was also rejected by the Minor court which in 1875 defined a natural-born citizen as a child born in a country to citizen parents. Ankeny used English common law to define an Article II "natural born Citizen" when all U.S. Supreme Court cases, including Minor and Wong Kim Ark, have used American common law to do so. Ankeny said: Although President Arthurs status as a natural born citizen was challenged in the 1880 Presidential Election on the grounds that he was born in Canada rather than Vermont, the argument was not made that because Arthurs father was an Irish citizen he was constitutionally ineligible to be President. But the court provided no evidence that anyone then was aware that when Chester Arthur was born, he was born to an alien father. Additionally, even if anyone of any authority was aware that Arthurs father when he was born was an alien, one constitutional violation does not justify another. Ankeny cited and quoted from Diaz-Salazar v. I.N.S., 700 F.2d 1156, 1160 (7th Cir. 1983) in support of its definition of a "natural born Citizen" when the question of the meaning of the clause did not exist in that case and the only reference therein to a "natural born Citizen" was made by the court when it recited the facts but not when it provided any legal analysis. It is incredible that the court would give such weight to such a statement of dicta and not give any weight to the U.S. Supreme Courts definition of a naturalborn citizen in Minor. The pro se plaintiffs in Ankeny claimed, among other things, that Obama was not eligible to be President under Article II, Section 1. The court said that persons born within the borders of the United States are natural born Citizens for Article II, Section 1 purposes, regardless of the citizenship of their parents. The court affirmed the dismissal of plaintiffs complaint on defendants motion that on its face plaintiffs complaint failed to state a claim upon which relief can be granted. What is also amazing about the Ankeny case is that after it went through its explanation as to what a natural born Citizen is and while it dismissed the plaintiffs case in which they argued both that Obama has yet to prove that he was born in the United States (it called that claim a non-factual assertion[]) and that even if he were so born he still fails to meet the legal definition of a natural born Citizen, it neither held that Obama was born in the United States nor that he is a natural born Citizen. In fact, there was absolutely no evidence before the court that Obama was born in Hawaii. And as we have seen, there was also absolutely no evidence before Judge Malihi showing the Obama was born in the United States. Hence, the Ankeny opinion regarding whether Obama is a natural born Citizen is nothing more than an advisory opinion, for the Court never ruled that he was such. The court never addressed the question of whether he was born in Hawaii. No evidence was presented to the court whether he was born within the borders of the United States. The court never even examined that issue. Hence, its statement that persons born within the borders of the United States are natural born Citizens for Article II, Section 1 purposes, regardless of the citizenship of their parents does not prove that Obama was, in fact, born within the borders of the United States and that he is therefore a natural born Citizen.
Ankeny was advisory on the "natural born Citizen" issue because it gave us its definition of a "natural born Citizen" but never applied that definition to Obama's personal situation. It resolved no real controversy. After it pronounced what the law was, it needed to apply that law to the facts. It needed to find that Obama was born in the United States and that he was thus a "natural born Citizen" to give its opinion any binding effect. It never made the finding that Obama was born in the United States. It never said that such a fact was established by the evidence before the court. So its whole opinion on what is a "natural born Citizen" is purely advisory. To conclude that plaintiffs did not state a sufficient claim given the courts ruling as to what a natural born Citizen is, there would have to exist uncontroverted evidence that Obama was in fact eligible to be President. The question of presidential eligibility is a legal question which the court could examine on a motion to dismiss a complaint for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted. But in order to make any conclusion as to whether plaintiffs adequately challenged Obamas eligibility, given the fact that on a motion to dismiss a complaint the court is supposed to view the pleadings in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party, with every reasonable inference construed in the nonmovants favor, and given the courts own definition of what is a natural born Citizen, the court had to examine whether Obama was born within the borders of the United States. This legal hurdle shows that the court could not decide the question of the legal sufficiency of plaintiffs complaint by simply examining its face alone. Rather, the court needed evidence outside the complaint (e.g. a birth certificate) which means that the court would have had to convert the motion to dismiss to one for summary judgment. But not only was there no evidence presented to the Ankeny court showing that Obama was in fact born in the United States, the court never called for such evidence nor did it even make such a factual finding. By the courts own words, the citizenship of Obamas parents was not relevant. But surely the only element of its natural born Citizen test, that Obama was born in the United States, was critically relevant. Yet the court dismissed the complaint for failure to state a claim without any evidence that Obama was born in the United States. Hence, how can the court dismiss the complaint for failure to state a claim? Rather, what the court did is just by way of advisory opinion tell us what it believes to be a natural born Citizen without applying its definition to the question of whether Obama is constitutionally eligible. If the court had addressed the place of birth issue, given its definition of a natural born Citizen, it would have ended the live controversy. It did not do that so its opinion is a mere advisory opinion with no application to a live factual controversy producing a just resolution. Lastly, if the courts decision had not been advisory, the nation today would know whether Obama was or was not born within the borders of the United States. The Ankeny plaintiffs may have argued that place of birth did not matter, given the two-citizen parent argument. But surely, they did not concede that Obama was born in the United States and the court did not make a finding that they made any such concession. Hence, once the court rejected the citizen-parents element and relied strictly on the place of birth, it could not simply conclude that plaintiffs did not state a claim, for the ultimate issue was always Obama's eligibility which they clearly stated in their complaint. Again, the court was duty bound on a motion to dismiss on the face of the complaint to give the nonmoving party every reasonable inference. I cannot imagine, given that the court was well aware of the issue of place of birth, the plaintiffs never conceded that Obama was born in the United States, the ultimate issue was eligibility, and the requirement that a court faced with a motion to dismiss on the face of a complaint is to give the non-movant the benefit of all reasonable inferences, the court not treating a complaint that says that Obama was not eligible as also encompassing the place of birth issue or in the alternative not giving the non-moving pro se parties the opportunity to amend their complaint. The Ankeny court could have completely disposed of the case on an independent state ground. There was no need for the court to journey into the waters of what an Article II natural born Citizen is. Not being satisfied with giving us its opinion on what a natural born Citizen is as it pertains to persons born in the
United States, the court in Footnote 15 even cautioned that while the question of whether someone born out of the United States can be a natural born Citizen was not before it, its decision should not be interpreted to mean that being born in the United States is the only way someone can be a natural born Citizen. As we have seen, Ankeny is simply bad law for many reasons. The main one is that it rests on the incorrect notion that Wong Kim Ark declaring that Wong was a citizen of the United States from the moment of birth under the Fourteenth Amendment necessarily means that the Court said he was a natural born Citizen. Such a position is remarkable given that the Indiana court itself admitted in its own opinion that it is aware that the Constitution contains both natural born Citizens and citizens of the United States and that the Wong holding did not include natural born Citizen. So, any citation to Ankeny v. Governor of Indiana is misguided for at least two reasons, and as we have seen above there are many more. It read Minor v. Happersett as having doubts about who was a natural born Citizen when it had no such doubt. Its doubts were only whether a child born in the U.S. to alien parents was a citizen under the law existing prior to the Fourteenth Amendment and necessarily also under that very amendment. It also read Wong Kim Ark as resolving those non-existing doubts and holding that Wong was a natural born Citizen. But Justice Gray only held that Wong was a citizen of the United States under the Fourteenth Amendment. He never held that he was a natural born Citizen. So Wong, not addressing the issue, never resolved any doubts concerning what a natural born Citizen is. In fact, the Court cited and quoted Minor v. Happersetts definition of the clause which was a child born in the country to citizen parents. Judge Malihi finds that Obama became a citizen at birth and is a natural born citizen. What he is saying is that by the mere fact that Obama was a citizen at birth, he is a natural born Citizen. But this is not the definition of a natural born citizen. Judge Malihi's definition must fail just on a textual basis. The clause is "natural born Citizen," not "born Citizen." The "natural" must also be given meaning. And when we do give "natural" meaning, we see that it cannot be separated from the word of art and idiom, "natural born Citizen" which means a child born in the country to citizen parents. The Founders and Framers looked for a citizenship standard that would assure them that the President and Commander in Chief would have the most allegiance, attachment, and loyalty to the republic. A citizenship test that depended only upon when a child became a citizen would not be sufficient, for it alone would not say anything of how the child would be reared. But a test that included to whom a child was born and that provided some indication of how the child would be raised much better provided for their needs for allegiance to the nation. For those reasons, a natural born citizen could not just depend upon being declared a citizen from the moment of birth, which any positive law could declare. Rather, the Founders and Framers included two natural components which were that the child would have to be born in the country to citizen parents. This was the time-honored definition of a natural born Citizen under natural law and the law of nations and this is what they accepted. A born citizen, citizen at birth, citizen by birth or citizen from birth, if he or she does not satisfy this original American common law definition, is an Article II Citizen of the United States as defined by the Fourteenth Amendment, Congressional Act, or treaty, but not an Article II natural born Citizen as defined by natural law and the law of nations which definition is a child born in the country to citizen parents. In other words, a born . . . citizen of the United States under the Fourteenth Amendment or Congressional Act is simply a person born in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof. As can be seen, in the Fourteenth Amendment there is no citizen parents requirement, but there is a subject to the jurisdiction thereof requirement. In contradistinction, in the natural born Citizen definition, there is a citizen parents requirement, but there is no subject to the jurisdiction thereof requirement, for being born in the country to citizen parents, such a child could not be born other than
"subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States. Since the amendment is designed only to allow someone to become a member of the United States and nothing more, according to Wong Kim Ark there is no need to require citizen parents but at least to require that the child be born subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. Since a child that is born in the United States to citizen parents will always be born subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, we do not engage in jurisdiction analysis when exploring whether one is a natural born Citizen, but rather just look to see that the person was born in the United States to citizen parents. This is why Minor engaged in no subject to the jurisdiction analysis when examining Virginia Minors citizenship status. On the other hand, since under Wong Kim Ark a Fourteenth Amendment (or Congressional Act) "born . . . citizen of the United States" can be born in the United States to one or two alien parents, Wong Kim Ark instructs that we must do a "subject to the jurisdiction" analysis which is what it did of Wong. All this tells us that there is a fundamental constitutional difference between an Article II "natural born Citizen," who is born within the sole, full, and complete legal, political, and military allegiance and jurisdiction and therefore sole citizenship of the United States and a Fourteenth Amendment "born . . . citizen of the United States" who is born with divided allegiance, jurisdiction, and citizenship. If any born citizen, citizen at birth, citizen by birth or citizen from birth does not satisfy the natural born Citizen definition, we cannot simply amend Article II by changing the definition of a natural born Citizen to one of these phrases. In other words, we cannot just take an Article II Citizen of the United States as defined by the Fourteenth Amendment or Congressional Act and convert that person into an Article II natural born Citizen as defined by American common law which has its basis in natural law and the law of nations. Rather, if one is going to maintain that he or she is an Article II natural born Citizen, then let he or she prove it under the time-honored definition of the clause. Let us not accept that the definition of an Article II natural born Citizen has somehow been changed to some other phrase such as a citizen at birth or citizen by birth without seeing any evidence of that ever happening. Let us not because of political expediency take someone who may at best be a Fourteenth Amendment citizen of the United States and convert that person into an Article II natural born Citizen. The burden of proof is on those seeking to change the Constitution and its original and longstanding definition of a natural born Citizen, not on those who are fighting to preserve, protect, and defend them. So as we can see, our U.S. Supreme Court has given the exact natural born Citizen clause only one definition and that is a child born in the country to citizen parents. See Minor v. Happersett (1875); U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark (1898). This means that only a child born in the United States to two parents who are either Article II natural born Citizens or Fourteenth Amendment or statutory born or naturalized . . . citizens of the United States is an Article II natural born Citizen. This is the consensus opinion of a natural born Citizen as provided by our U.S. Supreme Court and Congress since the beginning of our nation. Consequently, a Citizen of the United States is any citizen so made by Act of Congress, treaty, or other positive law such as the Fourteenth Amendment. Indeed, while a Fourteenth Amendment born . . . citizen of the United States may be born with dual and divided allegiance to the United States, an Article II natural born Citizen is born only within the sole, full, complete, and undivided legal, political, and military allegiance and jurisdiction of and sole citizenship in the United States. A natural born Citizen includes all those who are born with no foreign allegiance and excludes all those who are born with any foreign allegiance. On the other hand, a citizen, native-born citizen, born Citizen, or citizen of the United States who is not a natural born Citizen can be born with foreign allegiance but through positive law is nevertheless naturalized to be a citizen of the United States either at birth or after birth. Hence, a natural born Citizen has only one definition which was recognized during the Founding and which has been confirmed by our U.S. Supreme Court, Congress, and other historical sources. That definition is a child born in the country to citizen parents. Satisfying this definition removes from the child foreign allegiance which may attach by birth on foreign soil (by jus
soli) or by birth to one or two foreign parents (by jus sanguinis). It is by satisfying this definition that one is born with no foreign allegiance and thus attached and loyal only to the United States. Consequently, all natural born Citizen[s] are citizens of the United States, but not all citizens of the United States are natural born Citizen[s]. Therefore, any born . . . citizen of the United States under the Fourteenth Amendment must still show that he or she satisfies the American common law definition of a natural born Citizen in order to be considered a natural born Citizen. Failing to make that showing, a born or native born citizen under the Fourteenth Amendment is just that but not an Article II natural born Citizen. Judge Malihi has not made any findings of fact concerning the question of where Obama was born. Obama the candidate wants to be President again. Under Article II, Section 1, Clause 5, Obama has the burden of proof to conclusively prove that he is a natural born Citizen. As part of that burden, he has to conclusively prove that he was born in the United States. Neither Obama nor his attorney appeared at the hearing to present any evidence on the issue. Judge Malihi found the plaintiffs documentary evidence to be insufficient for whatever purposes it could have been used. Nor did he find that that evidence, which includes a paper copy of the computer scan of Obamas alleged long form birth certificate, to be sufficient to prove that Obama was born in Hawaii. We can see from the exact words used by Judge Malihi that Obama has failed to carry his burden to conclusively prove that he was born in the United States. Judge Malihi said that he considered that Obama was born in the United States. We do not know what this means and it appears that Judge Malihi attempts to avoid the issue of whether he found that Obama was born in the United States. Clearly, considered does not mean found. Since Obama failed to carry his burden of proof as to his place of birth and Judge Malihis decision actually confirms that fact, the Georgia Secretary of State should reject Judge Malihis decision and rule on his own that Obama not be placed on the primary ballot. Should the Georgia Secretary of State find that there is sufficient evidence in the record which conclusively shows that Obama was born in the United States, then he can still find that Obama is still not a natural born Citizen. We have seen that Judge Malihi relies on Ankeny which is bad law when it comes to the definition of an Article II natural born Citizen. He fails in not giving controlling effect to the U.S. Supreme Court case of Minor which clearly defined a natural born citizen. Finally, Judge Malihi incorrectly reads Wong Kim Ark and gives controlling effect to that incorrect reading. The timehonored American common law definition of the clause is a child born in the country to citizen parents. There is no dispute that Obama was born to a non-U.S. citizen father (his father was a British citizen) and U.S. citizen mother. Being born to an alien father, Obama also inherited his fathers British citizenship under the British Nationality Act 1948. All this demonstrates that Obama was not born in the full and complete legal, political, and military allegiance and jurisdiction of the United States. He is therefore not an Article II natural born Citizen and cannot be placed on the Georgia primary ballot. Mario Apuzzo, Esq. February 3, 2012 http://puzo1.blogspot.com/ #### Copyright 2012 Mario Apuzzo, Esq. All Rights Reserved
CASE #34-2012-80001048 EXHIBIT 13
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OFFICE OF STATE ADMINISTRATIW HEARINGS STATE OF GEORGIA

DAVID FARRAR, LEAH LAX, CODY JUDY, THOMAS MALAREN, LAURIE ROTH, Plaintiffs, v. BARACK OBAMA, Defendant. DAVID P. WELDEN, Plaintiff,
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Docket Number: OSAH-SECSTATE-CE1215136-60-MALIHI Counsel for Plaintiffs: Orly Taitz Counsel for Defendant: Michael Jablonski
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BARACK OBAMA,
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Defendant. CART, SWENSSON, Plaintiff,

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Docket Number: OSAH-SECSTATE-CE1216218-60-MALIHI Counsel for Plaintiff J. Mark Hatfield Counsel for Defendant: Michael Jablonski
BARACK OBAMA,
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BARACK OBAMA,
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DECISION^
Plaintiffs allege that Defendant President Barack Obama does not meet Georgia's eligibility requirements for candidacy in Georgia's 2012 presidential primary election. Georgia law mandates that candidates meet constitutional and statutory requirements for the office that they seek. O.C.G.A.
5 21-2-5(a).
Mr. Obama is a candidate for federal
office who has been certified by the state executive committee of a political party, and therefore must, under Georgia Code Section 21-2-5, meet the constitutional and statutory qualifications for holding the Office of the President of the United States. Id. The United States Constitution requires that a President be a "natural born [clitizen." U.S. Const. art. 11, 5 1, cl. 5. As required by Georgia Law, Secretary of State Brian Kemp referred Plaintiffs' challenges to this Court for a hearing. O.C.G.A.
5 21-2-5(b). A hearing was held on
January 26, 2012. .The record closed on February 1, 2012. Plaintiffs Farrar, Lax, Judy, Malaren, and Roth and their counsel Orly Taitz, Plaintiffs Carl Swensson and Kevin Richard Powell and their counsel J. Mark Hatfield, and Plaintiff David P. Welden and his counsel Van R. Irion, all appeared and answered the call of the case. However, neither Defendant nor his counsel, Michael Jablonski, appeared or answered. Ordinarily, the Court would enter a default order against a party that fails to participate in any stage of a proceeding. Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 616-1-2-.30(1) and (5). Nonetheless, despite the
This Decision has been consolidated to include the four challenges to President Obama's candidacy filed by Plaintiffs David Farrar, et al., David P. Welden, Carl Swensson, and Kevin Richard Powell. Section I of this Decision applies only to the case presented by Ms. Taitz on behalf of Mr. Farrar and his co-plaintiffs, Leah Lax, Cody Judy, Thomas Malaren, and Laurie Roth, and does not pertain, in any way, to the cases of Mr. Welden, Mr. Swensson, and Mr. Powell. Section I1 applies to all Plaintiffs.
Defendant's failure to appear, Plaintiffs asked this Court to decide the case on the merits of their arguments and evidence. The Court granted Plaintiffs' request. By deciding this matter on the merits, the Court in no way condones the conduct or legal scholarship of Defendant's attorney, Mr. Jablonski. This Decision is entirely based on the law, as well as the evidence and legal arguments presented at the hearing.
I.
Evidentiary Arguments of Plaintiffs Farrar, et al.
Plaintiffs Farrar, Lax, Judy, Malaren, and Roth contend that President Barack Obama is not a natural born citizen. To support this contention, Plaintiffs assert that Mr. Obama maintains a fraudulently obtained social security number, a Hawaiian birth certificate that is a computer-generated forgery, and that he does not otherwise possess valid U.S. identification papers. Further, Plaintiffs submit that Mr. Obama has previously held Indonesian citizenship, and he did not use h s legal name on his notice of candidacy, which is either Barry Soetoro or Barack Obama Soebarkah. (P1.s' Am. Compl. 3.) At the hearing, Plaintiffs presented the testimony of eight witnesses2 and seven exhibits in support of their position. (Exs. P-1 through P-7.) When considering the testimony and exhibits, this Court applies the same rules of evidence that apply to civil nonjury cases in superior court. Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 616-1-2-.18(1)-(9). The weight
to be given to any evidence shall be determined by the Court based upon its reliability and probative value. Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 616-1-2-. 18(10). The Court finds the testimony of the witnesses, as well as the exhibits tendered, to be of little, if any, probative value, and thus wholly insufficient to support Plaintiffs' allegations.3 Ms. Taitz attempted to solicit expert testimony fi-om several of the witnesses without qualifying or tendering the witnesses as experts. See Stephens v. State, 219 Ga. App. 881 (1996) (the unqualified testimony of the witness was not competent evidence). For example, two of Plaintiffs' witnesses testified that Mr. Obama's birth
Originally, Ms. Taitz indicated to the Court that she would offer the testimony of seven witnesses. However, during her closing argument, Ms. Taitz requested to testify. Ms. Taitz was sworn and began her testimony, but shortly thereafter, the Court requested that Ms. Tatiz step-down and submit any further testimony in writing.
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The credibility of witnesses is within the sole discretion of the trier of fact. In non-iurv cases that " . discretion lies with the judge. See Mustang Transp., Inc. v. W.W. Lowe & Sons, Inc., 123 Ga. App. 350, 352 (1971).
certificate was forged, but neither witness was properly qualified or tendered as an expert in birth records, forged documents or document manipulation. Another witness testified that she has concluded that the social security number Mr. Obama uses is fraudulent; however, her investigatory methods and her sources of information were not properly presented, and she was never qualified or tendered as an expert in social security fraud, or fraud investigations in general. Accordingly, the Court cannot make an objective
threshold determination of these witnesses' testimony without adequate knowledge of their qualifications. See Knudsen v. Dufee-Freeman, Inc., 95 Ga. App. 872 (1957) (for the testimony of an expert witness to be received, his or her qualifications as such must be first proved). None of the testifying witnesses provided persuasive testimony. Moreover, the Court finds that none of the written submissions tendered by Plaintiffs have probative value. Given the unsatisfactory evidence presented by the Plaintiffs, the Court concludes that Plaintiffs' claims are not persuasive.
11.
Application of the "Natural Born Citizen" Requirement
Plaintiffs allege that President Barack Obama is not a natural born citizen of the United States and, therefore, is not eligible to run in Georgia's presidential primary election. As indicated supra, the United States Constitution states that "[nlo person except a natural born Citizen. . . shall be eligible for the Office of the President U.S. Const. art. 11, 5 1, cl. 5. For the purpose of this section's analysis, the following facts are considered: 1)
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Mr. Obama was born in the United States; 2) Mr. Obama's mother was a citizen of the United States at the time of his birth; and 3) Mr. Obama's father was never a United States citizen. Plaintiffs contend that, because his father was not a U.S. citizen at the time of his birth, Mr. Obama is constitutionally ineligible for the Office of the President of the United States. The Court does not agree.
In 2009, the Indiana Court of Appeals ("Indiana Court") addressed facts and
issues similar to those before this Court. Arkeny v. Governor, 916 N.E.2d 678 (Ind. Ct. App. 2009). In Arkeny, the plaintiffs sought to prevent certification of Mr. Obama as an
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eligible candidate for president because he is not a natural born citizen. Id. at 681. The plaintiffs argued, as the Plaintiffs argue before this Court, that "there's a very clear distinction between a 'citizen of the United States' and a 'natural born Citizen,' and the difference involves having [two] parents of U.S. citizenship, owing no foreign allegiance." Id. at 685. The Indiana Court rejected the argument that Mr. Obama was
The definition of this clause has been the source of much debate. See, e.g., Gordon, a o Can Be President of the United States: The Unresolved Enigma, 28 Md. L. Rev. 1 (1968); Jill A. Pryor, Note, The Natural-Born Citizen Clause and Presidential Eligibility: An Approach for Resolving Two Hundred Years of Uncertainty, 97 Yale L.J. 881 (1988); Christina S. Lohman, Presidential Eligibility: The Meaning of the Natural-Born Citizen Clause, 36 Gonz. L. Rev. 349 (2000); William T. Han, Beyond Presidential Eligibility: The Natural Born Citizen Clause as a Source of Birthright Citizenship, 58 Drake L. Rev. 457 (2010).
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ineligible, stating that children born within the United States are natural born citizens, regardless of the citizenship of their parents. Id. at 688. This Court finds the decision and analysis of Arkeny persuasive. The Indiana Court began its analysis by attempting to ascertain the definition of "natural born citizen" because the Constitution does not define the term. Id. at 685-86; See Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 162, 167 (1875) ("The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that."); see also United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898) (noting that the only mention of the term "natural born citizen" in the Constitution is in Article 11, and the term is not defined in the Constitution). The Indiana Court first explained that the U.S. Supreme Court has read the Fourteenth Amendment and Article I1 (natural born citizen provision) in tandem and held that "new citizens may be born or they may be created by naturalization." Id. at 685 (citing Minor, 88 U.S. at 167); See U.S. Const. amend. XIV,
8 1. ("All persons born or
naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States . . . ."). In Minor, the Court observed that: At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the fiamers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners. Some authorities go further and include as citizens children born within the jurisdiction without reference to the citizenship of their parents. As to this class there have been doubts, but never as to the first. For the purposes of this case it is not necessary to solve these doubts.
Id. at 167-68. Plaintiffs ask this Court to read the Supreme Court's decision in Minor as
defining natural born citizens as only "children born in a country of parents who were its
citizens." 88 U.S. at 167. However, the Indiana Court explains that Minor did not define the term natural born citizen. In deciding whether a woman was eligible to vote, the Minor Court merely concluded that children born in a country of parents who were its citizens would qualify as natural born, and this Court agrees. The Minor Court left open the issue of whether a child born within the United States of alien parent(s) is a natural born citizen. Next, the Indiana Court looked to United States v. Wong Kim Ark, in which the Supreme Court analyzed the meaning of the words "citizen of the United States" in the Fourteenth Amendment and "natural born citizen of the United States" in Article I1 to determine whether a child born in the United States to parents who, at the time of the child's birth, were subjects of China "becomes at the time of his birth a citizen of the United States, by virtue of the first clause of the fourteenth amendment.
. . ."
Id. at 686
(citing Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. at 653). The Indiana Court determined that the two provisions "must be interpreted in the light of the common law, the principles and history of which were familiarly known to the framers of the constitution." Id. (citing Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. at 654). The Indiana Court agreed that "[tlhe interpretation of the constitution of the United States is necessarily influenced by the fact that its provisions are fiamed in the language of the English common law, and are to be read in the light of its history." Id. (citing Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. at 655) (internal citation omitted). The Wong Kim Ark Court extensively examined the common law of England in its decision and concluded that Wong Kim Ark, who was born in the United States to alien parents,
became a citizen of the United States at the time of his birth.' Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. at
705.
The Wong Kim Ark Court explained: The fundamental principle of the common law with regard to English nationality was birth within the allegiance, also called "ligealty," "obedience," "faith" or "power," of the King. The principle embraced all persons born within the King's allegiance and subject to his protection. Such allegiance and protection were mutual . . . and were not restricted to natural-born subjects and naturalized subjects, or to those who had taken an oath of allegiance; but were predicable of aliens in amity, so long as they were within the kingdom. Children, born in England, of such aliens, were therefore natural-born subjects. But the children, born within the realm, of foreign ambassadors, or the children of alien enemies, born during and within their hostile occupation of part of the King's dominions, were not natural-born subjects, because not born within the allegiance, the obedience, or the power, or, as would be said at this day, within the jurisdiction of the King. 169 U.S. at 655. It thus clearly appears that by the law of England for the last three centuries, beginning before the settlement of this country, and continuing to the present day, aliens, while residing in the dominions possessed by the Crown of England, were within the allegiance, the obedience, the faith or loyalty, the protection, the power, the jurisdiction, of the English Sovereign; and therefore every child born in England of alien parents was a natural-born subject, unless the child of an ambassador or other diplomatic agent of a foreign State, or of an alien enemy in hostile occupation of the place where the child was born. Id. at 658. Further: Nothing is better settled at the common law than the doctrine that the children, even of aliens, born in a country, while the parents are resident there under the protection of the government, and owing a temporary allegiance thereto, are subjects by birth. f Id. at 660 (quoting Inglis v. Trustees o Sailors' Snug Harbor, 28 U.S. (3 Pet.) 99, 164 (1830) (Story, J., concurring)). And: The first section of the second article of the constitution uses the language, 'a natural-born citizen.' It thus assumes that citizenship may be acquired by birth. Undoubtedly, this language of the constitution was used in reference to that principle of public law, well understood in this country at the time of the adoption of the constitution, which referred citizenship to the place of birth. Id. at 662 (quoting Dred Scott v. Sanford, 60 U.S. (19 How.) 393, 576 (1856) (Curtis, J., dissenting)). Finally: All persons born in the allegiance of the king are natural-born subjects, and all persons born in the allegiance of the United States are natural-born citizens. Birth and allegiance go together. Such is the rule of the common law, and it is the common law of this country, as well as of England. Id. at 662-63 (quoting United States v. Rhodes, (1866) (Mr. Justice Swayne)).
Relying on the language of the Constitution and the historical reviews and analyses of Minor and Wong Kim Ark, the Indiana Court concluded that persons born within the borders of the United States are "natural born citizens" for Article 11, Section 1 purposes, regardless of the citizenship of their parents. Just as a person "born within the British dominions [was] a natural-born British subject" at the time of the framing of the U.S. Constitution, so too were those "born in the allegiance of the United States [I natural-born citizens." 916 N.E.2d at 688. The Indiana Court determined that a person qualifies as a natural born citizen if he was born in the United States because he became a United States citizen at
For the purposes of this analysis, this Court considered that President Barack Obama was born in the United States. Therefore, as discussed in Arkeny, he became a citizen at birth and is a natural born citizen. Accordingly, CONCLUSION President Barack Obama is eligible as a candidate for the presidential primary election under O.C.G.A. 21-2-5(b).
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SO ORDERED, February 3rd,2012.
MICHAEL M. MALIHI, Judge
This Court recognizes that the Wong Kim Ark case was not deciding the meaning of "natural born citizen" for the purposes of determining presidential qualifications; however, this Court finds the Indiana Court's analysis and reliance on these cases to be persuasive.
CASE #34-2012-80001048 EXHIBIT 14
Generally Recognized Presidential Candidates June 5, 2012, Presidential Primary Election (Revised February 28, 2012)
Barack Obama Obama for America PO Box 803638 Chicago, IL 60680 Phone: (312) 698-3670 Website: www.barackobama.com Newt Gingrich Newt 2012 PO Box 550769 Atlanta, GA 30355 Phone: (678) 973-2306 Website: www.newt.org Fred Karger Fred Karger for President 2745 Woodstock Rd Los Angeles, CA 90046 Phone: (202) 365-2321 Website: www.fredkarger.com Ron Paul Ron Paul 2012 Presidential Campaign Committee 8000 Forbes Pl, Ste 200 Springfield, VA 22151 Phone: (703) 563-6620 Website: www.ronpaul2012.com Charles E. Buddy Roemer, III Buddy Roemer for President PO Box 84877 Baton Rouge, LA 70884 Phone: (603) 782-4812 Website: www.buddyroemer.com Mitt Romney Mitt Romney for President PO Box 149756 Boston, MA 02114-9756 Phone: (857) 288-3500 Website: www.mittromney.com Rick Santorum Rick Santorum for President PO Box 37 Verona, PA 15147 Phone: (888) 321-6675 Website: www.ricksantorum.com Democratic
Republican
Republican
Republican
Republican
Republican
Republican
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Edward C. Noonan 1713 11th Ave Olivehurst, CA 95961 Mad Max Riekse PO Box 82 Fruitport, MI 49415 Laurie Roth 2903 Maple St Longview, WA 98632 Roseanne Barr Roseanne for President 2012 214 Main St #293 El Segundo, CA 90245 Phone: (646) 423-8383 Website: www.roseanneforpresident.com Kent Mesplay Mesplay for President 5173 Waring Rd #204 San Diego, CA 92120 Email: info@mesplay.org Website: www.mesplay.org Jill Stein Jill Stein for President PO Box 260217 Madison, WI 53726-0217 Email: hq@jillstein.org Website: www.jillstein.org Roger Gary 1119 W Ashby Pl San Antonio, TX 78201 R. J. Harris 3334 W Main St Box 402 Norman, OK 73072 Gary Johnson 280 S 400 W Ste 220 Salt Lake City, UT 84101 American Independent
American Independent
American Independent
Green
Green
Green
Libertarian
Libertarian
Libertarian
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Scott Keller 8754 Handel Loop Land O Lakes, FL 34637 James Ogle 715 9th St Pacific Grove, CA 93950 Carl Person 325 W 45th St Ste 201 New York, NY 10036-3803 Bill Still 44564 Blue Ridge Meadows Dr Ashburn, VA 20147 Barbara Joy Waymire 2710 County Rd 202 Tulelake, CA 96134-9286 Lee Wrights 109 Latigo Dr Burnet, TX 78611 Stewart Alexander 40485 Murrieta Hot Springs Rd #149 Murrieta, CA 92563 Phone: (909) 223-2067 Email: stewartalexander4paf@ca.rr.com Ross C. Rocky Anderson 314 W 300 S Ste 225 Salt Lake City, UT 84101 Phone: (801) 990-5300 Phone: (801) 557-9007 Email: rockyanderson.justice@gmail.com Stephen Durham* 762 Riverside Dr., #3A New York, NY 10031 Phone: (206) 985-4621 Email: votesocialism@gmail.com Website: www.socialism.com Libertarian
Libertarian
Libertarian
Libertarian
Libertarian
Libertarian
Peace and Freedom
Peace and Freedom
Peace and Freedom
* Added February 28, 2012, to the list of Generally Recognized Presidential Candidates
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SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SACRAMENTO

Action Filed: January 6, 2012

ARTICLE 20 MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS [ Required Oath of Office ]

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, and is absent to date as shown by the Letters in Exhibit 10.

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That as part of the CA SOS duties to make a determination of eligibility

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UNITED STATES PRESIDENT

June 5, 2012, Presidential Primary Election

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SHERIFF ARPAIO RELEASES PRELIMINARY FINDINGS ON OBAMA BIRTH CERTIFICATE

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a member of the politiql party from which I am running as a

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REPORTBARACK OBAMA: LONG FORM BIRTH CERTIFICATE

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