Candidates for public office having a minimum age requirement, required to provide certified copy of birth certificate

Thirteen Alabama senators have sponsored a bill requiring presentation of a valid birth certificate in order to qualify for elected state and federal political offices that have minimum age requirements, including the presidency.

The bill’s sponsor, Sen. Slade Blackwell, R-Mountain Brook, said the bill isn’t a “birther bill” aimed at President Barack Obama, whom so-called birthers doubt is a natural born U.S. citizen and therefore isn’t qualified to be president.

“This bill is for anyone who is running for office where you have to be qualified with a minimum age,” Blackwell said. “We need to verify everybody’s age.”

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Sen. Bobby Singleton, D-Greensboro, said the bill is a “birther bill” pure and simple. “Republicans are trying to follow the lead from other states about what is popular,” said Singleton.

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Section 1. (a) Any person who seeks election and/or
seeks ballot access for any election to any public office that
has an age requirement for election to that office shall
provide a certified copy of his or her birth certificate that
includes the date and place of birth when the person qualifies
for election to that office.
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Section 2. The political party or other official
receiving the qualifying papers shall forward copies of the
certified birth certificates to the Secretary of State for
proof of legal ballot access. The Secretary of State shall
hold the copies of the birth certificates until the official
results are certified, or until any legal challenge to a
certification is disposed of, following which time they shall
be destroyed.

Indefinitely Postponed in House of Origin

The fullest news report I've seen is at

http://www.gadsdentimes.com/article/20110422/NEWS/110429923/-1/news02?Title=DANA-BEYERLE-Have-senators-offered-birther-bill-

Kobach, a Republican elected secretary of state last year, has been a national leader in writing tough anti-illegal immigration laws in various states and cities.

He helped write the controversial SB 1070 in Arizona and, more recently, the law cracking down on illegal immigration in Alabama.

House Democratic Leader Paul Davis of Lawrence says Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a Republican, needs to focus on his job and not his “personal crusade” against illegal immigration.
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Davis said the recent fine levied by state ethics officials against Kobach’s campaign for campaign finance reporting violations showed that Kobach “is spending too much time traveling around the country on a personal crusade and not enough time doing the job the people of Kansas elected — and pay — him to do.”

Last week, Kobach’s campaign was fined the maximum amount of $5,000 for failing to report accurately nearly $80,000 in contributions and expenses in Kobach’s successful 2010 campaign for secretary of state.
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Kobach has co-authored the most controversial of those laws in the nation, including those in Arizona and Alabama, and is in frequent legal battles over the issue of illegal immigration.