The state assembly tries to block Obama's re-election

The state assembly tries to block Obama's re-election. The Arizona Senate passed a bill on the 13th, requiring presidential candidates to prove that they are American citizens, otherwise their names will not be included on the ballot...

The state assembly tries to block Obama's re-election. The Arizona Senate passed a bill on the 13th, requiring presidential candidates to prove that they are American citizens, otherwise their names will not be included on Arizona's ballot. Arizona is the first state in the United States to pass such a bill, targeting current President Barack Obama, deliberately hindering the Democrat's re-election in 2012. Democrats believe the bill exceeds Arizona's authority. The U.S. Constitution stipulates that candidates must be born in the United States to be eligible to run for president. When it comes to Obama, some have for some time alleged that the son of a Kenyan father and an American mother was not born in the United States. A scan of Obama's birth certificate previously released by the White House showed that Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, at 7:24 pm on August 4, 1961. The Arizona Senate's "birth" bill provides that presidential candidates who do not have a U.S. birth certificate can use two documents instead: proof of baptism or circumcision, and a hospital birth record or postpartum medical record. The bill awaits a vote in the state House of Representatives. The state House of Representatives previously passed a similar bill, but it did not include language that would allow presidential candidates to substitute other documents for birth certificates. If a candidate's name is not included on the ballot in a certain state, the presidential candidate cannot gain the support of voters in that state. The proposal was vetoed when it went to the governor for his signature. In her veto letter, Brewer said she was deeply troubled by the bill authorizing the Arizona secretary of state to determine who is eligible to run for president. Brewer was Arizona's secretary of state and became governor in 2009. "I do not support appointing someone as a gatekeeper to vet candidates because that would lead to arbitrary or politically motivated decisions," Brewer said.