They Are Trying To Remove The Canadian From The Ballot

Ted Cruz has a “birther” problem.

Ted Cruz risks primary disqualification in New Jersey resulting from charges of ballot access fraud. A primary ballot disqualification hearing is scheduled by the Secretary of State for Monday, April 11 at 9:00 a.m. in Mercerville, New Jersey.

Washington D.C. Law Professor Victor Williams charges that Ted Cruz fraudulently certified his constitutional eligibility for office to gain ballot access. Williams demands that Cruz be disqualified from several late-primary ballots: “Cruz committed ballot access fraud in each state when he falsely swore that he was a ‘natural born’ American citizen.” Cruz was born in Calgary, Canada and held his resulting Canadian citizenship until May 2014. Cruz is a naturalized (not natural born) American citizen.

Williams’ fraud charges had quick effect in New Jersey. Rather than accepting Cruz’s ballot petition when filed last week, the Secretary of State (Kim Guadagno) scheduled the unusual Administrative Law hearing for April 11. The Canadian-born Cruz must prove that he did not falsely certify his eligibility for office.

Cruz’s ballot eligibility is also being challenged in California, Maryland, Montana, Nebraska, Oregon, South Dakota, and Washington.

These folks believe they have evidence (at the site linked) that Ted is not even eligible to be a Senator, let alone a President. Ted disputes that claim

“Eleanor was never a citizen of Canada, and she could not have been under the facts or the law. In short, she did not live in Canada long enough to be a Canadian citizen by the time Cruz was born in 1970: Canadian law required 5 years of permanent residence, and she moved to Canada in December 1967—only 3 years before Senator Cruz’s birth.”

The campaign could not provide her Canadian work permit.

Canadian immigration authorities could not provide Breitbart News with additional documents, citing Canadian privacy laws.

Ted could resolve at least part of this dispute by giving the Canadians permission to release his records. Odd that he has so far not done so.

In addition Canada at the time had a law saying that anyone born on Canadian soil was de facto a Canadian citizen. The US still has such a law. So his mother’s citizenship is not a factor. It is a good lawyerly distraction, however.

If he is disqualified in any of those States I wonder if it will affect any of the previous states in which he has gotten delegates. The Republican Party’s more conciliatory attitude towards Mr. Trump may indicate how they believe this question will be decided. Or that attitude change may be due to something else.

I should add that Law Professor Victor Williams is a Democrat running as a write in Republican in order to get standing and get Mr. Cruz off the ballot. Evidently he and his backers believe Mr. Trump will be easier to defeat in the general election. That may be a mistake. Or not. So far Mr. Trump has gone from “clown” to Republican front runner. Something I would have considered impossible 9 months ago.

This is the most fun election I have seen in my 71 years.