Specification of Objections to
Republican Nominating or Designating Certificate or Petition or Request
Designating Mitt Romney
as a Candidate for President
Filed with the NYS Board of Elections on February 10, 2012
Name & Address of Objector:
February 16, 2012
CERTIFIED RETURN RECEIPT #_________________
To:
Election Operations
NEW YORK STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS,
40 Steuben Street
Albany New York 12207
Further to my General Objection mailed on ____________________________________________,
I, __________________________________ (Objector) object to the above identified petition, and I hereby specify the following reasons:
Objector is located for service at
__________________________________________________________________________
Phone: ____________________________________________________________________ email: _______________________________..
Objector is a duly registered Republican New York voter in the 2012 election cycle, and is qualified to vote for in the New York Primary for President of the United States.
The designated candidate Mitt Romney is not eligible for the Office of President of the United States (POTUS).and is therefore not eligible to run in the next New York Primary for President of the United States.
Objector references the NYS BOE notice that a document was filed on February 10, 2012 that designates Mitt Romney for ballot access in the next New York Primary as the Republican Party Candidate for President of the United States.
Objector challenges the Certification of both the declared candidate Mitt Romney and all the petitions and filing documents as a nullity, against the Constitution of the United States, and against public policy, in that Mitt Romney is not eligible for the Office of the President of the United States (POTUS) because he is not a “Natural Born Citizen” as is required under New York State law in compliance with the U.S. Constitution Article 2 Section 1 paragraph 5 and New York provision of law defining “Natural born Citizen”.
“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.”
A Natural Born Citizen is a person born in the United States of two United States Citizens.
Therefore all the designating petitions must be rejected as defective.
New York State has case law on the term “Natural Born Citizen” because New York State Law prohibited all but Natural Born Citizens from owning mines:
| Mines in Saint Lawrence county. |
§ 18. Mines in Saint Lawrence county. The proprietors of any mines or
veins of lead or copper in the county of Saint Lawrence, may demise,
lease, or rent the same for a period not to exceed twenty-one years from
the date of any such lease, to any foreign individual or company, and
such lessee may take, hold, work, use or convey the same during the said
term, in the same manner and subject to the same liabilities as if such
lessee were a natural born citizen.
veins of lead or copper in the county of Saint Lawrence, may demise,
lease, or rent the same for a period not to exceed twenty-one years from
the date of any such lease, to any foreign individual or company, and
such lessee may take, hold, work, use or convey the same during the said
term, in the same manner and subject to the same liabilities as if such
lessee were a natural born citizen.
Objections are based upon the following timeline, constructed on information and belief, which shows that Mitt Romney's father George Romney, was a Mexican Citizen or a British Subject.
1757 Emmerich de Vattel, “The Law of Nations” Section 212:
“The natives, or natural born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents [both] who are citizens.”
The Law of Nations, written by Emmerich de Vattel, a Swiss-German philosopher of law. In that book, the following definition of a “natural born citizen” appears, in Book I, Chapter 19, § 212, of the English translation of 1797 (p. 110):
§ 212. Citizens and natives.
The citizens are the members of the civil society: bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority, they equally participate in its advantages. The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. As the society cannot exist and perpetuate itself otherwise than by the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers, and succeed to all their rights. . . .
The French original of 1757, on that same passage read thus:
“Les naturels, ou indigenes, sont ceux qui sont nes dans le pays de parents citoyens, . . .”
The terms “natives” and “natural born citizens” are English terms; used to render the idea conveyed by the French phrase “les naturels, ou indigenes”: but both referred to the same category of citizen: one born in the country, of parents who were citizens of that country.
In the political philosophy of Vattel, the term “naturels” refers to citizens who are such by the Law of Nature, that is by the natural cirumstances of their birth — which they did not choose; the term “indigenes” is from the Latin, indigenes, which like the English, “indigenous”, means “begotten from within” (inde-genes), as in the phrase “the indigenous natives are the peoples who have been born and lived there for generations.” Hence the meaning the the term, “natural born citizen”, or “naturels ou indigenes” is the same: born in the country of two parents who are citizens of that country.
Vattel did not invent the notion “natural born citizen”; he was merely applying the Law of Nature to questions of citizenship. In fact the term first appears in a letter of the future Supreme Court Justice, John Jay, to George Washington during the Constitutional Convention, where the Framers were consulting 3 copies Vattel’s book to complete their work (according to the testimony of Benjamin Franklin).
1814
The Venus, 12 U.S. 8 Cranch 253 253 (1814)
Decided in A.D. 1814, at the beginning of the republic, by men who were intimately associated with the American Revolution. In that year the following men sat on the Supreme Court:
Bushrod Washington, (b. June 5, 1762 — d. Nov. 26, 1829), served Feb. 4, 1799 til Nov. 26, 1829.
John Marshall (b. Sept. 24, 1755 — d. July 6, 1835), served Feb. 4, 1891 til July 6, 1835.
William Johnson (b. Dec. 27, 1771 — d. Aug. 4, 1834), served May 7, 1804, til Aug. 4, 1834.
Henry Brockholst Livingston (b. Nov. 25, 1757 — d. Mar. 18, 1823), served Jan. 20, 1807 til March 18, 1823
Thomas Todd (b. Jan. 23, 1765 — d. Feb. 7, 1826), served May 4, 1807 til Feb. 7, 1826.
Gabriel Duvall (b. Dec. 6, 1752 — d. Mar. 6, 1844), served Nov. 23, 1811 til Jany 14, 1835.
Joseph Story (b. Sept. 18, 1779 — d. Sept. 10, 1845), served Feb. 3, 1812 til Sept. 10, 1845
Nearly all these men either participated in the American Revolution, or their fathers did. Joseph Story’s father took part in the original Boston Tea Party. Thomas Todd served 6 months in the army against the British; and participated in 5 Constitutional Conventions from 1784-1792. During the Revolutionary War, Henry Brockholst Livingston was a Lieutenant Colonel in the New York Line and an aide-de-camp to General Benedict Arnold, before the latter’s defection to the British. William Johnson’s father, mother, and elder brother were revolutionaries, who served as statesman, rebel, or nurse/assistant to the line troops, respectively. John Marshall was First Lieutenant of the Culpeper Minutement of Virginia, and then Lieutenant in the Eleventh Virginian Continental Regiment, and a personal friend of General George Washington; and debated for ratification of the U.S. Constitution by the Virginian General Assembly. Bushrod Washington was George Washington’s nephew and heir.
Being witnesses and heirs of the Revolution, they understood what the Framers of the Constitution had intended.
The Venus case regarded the question whether the cargo of a merchantman, named the Venus, belonging to an American citizen, and being shipped from British territory to America during the War of 1812, could be seized and taken as a prize by an American privateer. But what the case said about citizenship, is what matters here.
WHAT THE VENUS CASE SAYS ON CITIZENSHIP
In the Venus Case, Justice Livingston, who wrote the unanimous decision, quoted the entire §212nd paragraph from the French edition, using his own English, on p. 12 of the ruling:
“The citizens are the members of the civil society; bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority, they equally participate in its advantages. The natives or indigenes are those born in the country of parents who are citizens. Society not being able to subsist and to perpetuate itself but by the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers, and succeed to all their rights.
“The inhabitants, as distinguished from citizens, are strangers who are permitted to settle and stay in the country. Bound by their residence to the society, they are subject to the laws of the state while they reside there, and they are obliged to defend it…
1806 Miles Archebald Romney, b. Dalton-in-Furness, co. Lancaster, 13 July 1806, d. St. George, Utah, 3 May 1877 m. Dalton-in-Furness, co. Lancaster, 16 Nov. 1830 (Mitt Romney’s Great Great Grandfather), Miles Archebald Romney married in Liverpool to Elizabeth, both British Subjects.
1809 Elizabeth Gaskell, b. Dalton-in-Furness, co. Lancaster, 8 Jan. 1809, d. St. George, Utah, 11 Oct. 1884
1830 Miles Archebald Romney & Elizabeth Gaskell married. Dalton-in-Furness, co. Lancaster, 16 Nov. 1830
1837 Romneys convert to Mormons
1839-Joseph Smith is in Navoo, IL.
1841 Great Great grandfather [Mitt’s] arrives in US. Miles Archebald Romney had married in Liverpool to Elizabeth with 5 children.
1841 Miles Archebald Romney moved to Navoo, IL. I have found no indication that Miles Archebald Romney ever became a Citizen of the United States of America, . Miles Romney (1806-1877) and his wife Elizabeth Gaskell (1809-1884) lived in the Liverpool area. Following their baptism, they sailed for New Orleans and made their way up the Mississippi by steamboat arriving at Nauvoo in 1841. T
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Becoming a Citizen
For most aliens the naturalization process was a two part process that took a minimum of five years though there were some exceptions. First an alien would file a declaration of intent. The court would keep a copy of the declaration and the alien would be given a copy to keep with him. After a proscribed period of residence an alien would file his petition for naturalization. When the alien filed his petition of naturalization, he returned his copy of his declaration of intention to the court. Following a change in the law in 1906 an alien also had to receive a certificate of arrival from the Immigration and Naturalization Service that verified his or her legal immigration. When an alien's petition was granted the court issued a certificate of citizenship to the alien. This document was the alien's official proof that he or she was now a U.S. citizenship.
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1842 Hannah Hood Hill, (Mitt’s Great grandmother) born in Tosoronto Township, Simcoe, Ontario, 9 July 1842, d. Colonia Juarez, Chihuahua, México, 29 Dec. 1928 British Subject.
1842 Hill family arrived in Navoo with Hannah Hood Hill.
1843 Joseph Smith visited England.
1843 Miles Park Romney, Mitt’s Great grandfather (1843-1904)] born in 1843-Aug-18 : Birth in Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, USA of two British Subjects (Miles Archebald Romney & Elizabeth Gaskell) is therefore himself a British Subject under US and International Law.
1850 The Territory of Utah was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from September 9, 1850, until January 4, 1896, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Utah.
1855 From 1855 to 1922, a married woman automatically assumed the citizenship of her husband; if an American woman married a foreign national, she lost her U.S. citizenship. Similarly, if a foreign national married a U.S. citizen, she automatically became a citizen. Her only documentation would be her marriage license and the naturalization (or birth) record of her husband. After 1922, a married woman was required to meet the naturalization laws although no declaration of intention was needed and residency changed from five years to one. http://archives.utah.gov/research/guides/naturalizations.htm
Miles Archebald Romney Moved to Utah
1862 The federal government in Washington passed the Morrell Act outlawing polygamy in 1862. (The bill was signed by Abraham Lincoln in the middle of the civil war.) This law was not enforced as you can see from the 1880 census where multiple wives are listed.
1862 -Mar-10 Miles Park Romney: Marriage to Hannah Hood Hill (1842-1929 Mitt’s Great Grandmother) in Salt Lake City - She was born in Canada. Miles and Hannah had eleven [or possibly thirteen] children including Gaskell Romney (1871-1955).
1862? 1863? Miles Park Romney was sent on a mission to England Before their first child (Isabell 1863-1919) was born. While in England he preached for several years in the area around Liverpool (former home of his parents). He came back to Salt Lake City with a boatload of new English converts.
1863 New York State Court of Appeals in Ludlum v Ludlum , 26 N.Y. 356 (1863) March Term, 1863 defines Natural Born Citizen.
1866 Rep. John Bingham, author of the 14th Amendment, Congressional Globe, 39th , 1st Sess. Pg 1291 (March 9, 1866) stated:
“...every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen.”
This demonstrates that the 14th Amendment did not apply to the children of British Subjects, who retained their own nationality.
1867 In 1867 the Romney family moved from Salt Lake City to Saint George, Utah. St. George is in the southwest corner of the state not far from Las Vages on the Arizona border.
1867 -Mar-23 Miles Park Romney: Marriage to Caroline Lambourne (1846-1879) in Salt Lake City - two children
1868 14th Amendment -Ratified 7/9/1868. 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
The purpose of this Amendment was to prevent former slaves from being denied citizenship rights by their states. It was not intended to abrogate the right of citizenship of nationals of other Countries by usurping their right to give their own nationality to their children.
The Amendment refers to States, not Territories.
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Discussion:
Gaskell and Anna were born in the Territory of Utah, but they were not born in the state of Utah. Gaskell Romney and Anna Amelia Pratt Romney were both born of British Parents in the Territory of Utah in 1871 and 1876 respectively. Gaskell’s father (Mitt’s great grandfather) Miles Romney was a polygamist. The 1882 Edmunds Act stripped polygamists of the basic rights of U.S. citizenship. Since the Romney’s lived in the Territory of Utah at that time, did they have any US citizenship, and if so, was it stripped by the Edmunds Act. In 1884 Miles Romney moved his multiple wives and children from the Territory of Utah to Mexico. Then in 1896 the Territory of Utah became a state. Since the Romneys moved to Mexico before 1896, how could they have received US citizenship since they were no longer residents of the Territory of Utah when it became a state? When George W. Romney (Mitt’s father) was born in Mexico in 1907, George W. became a native Mexican (based on the location of his birth), whether or not he was legally recognized as such. Some argue that George W. was in fact a Mexican citizen at birth. He may have been a British Subject, like his parents.
How did those in the Territory of Utah naturalize to become US citizens? One source states, “Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who applied for naturalization during the 1870s and 1880s were often denied because of polygamy.” https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Utah_Naturalization_and_Citizenship
Another article states that when the Territory of Utah became a state in 1896, “resident noncitizens did not automatically become U.S. citizens even if they had filed declarations of intention of becoming U.S. citizens.” The article also stated “We know from a contemporaneous news story that as of October 15 1967, George W. Romney hadn’t filed any particular papers to make himself a citizen.” http://wtpotus.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/mitt-romney-natural-born-citizenship-and-media-bias/
So since Mitt’s grandparents Gaskell (of British Subjects) and Anna Romney were born in the Territory of Utah (which did not automatically make them US citizens) and had left the Territory of Utah before it became a state, where is the proof that Gaskell and Anna Romney had US citizenship to pass on to their son George W. Romney when he was born in Mexico in 1907? Where is the proof that George W. Romney had US citizenship to pass on to his son Mitt Romney when he was born in 1947?
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1870 Amendment 15 - Race No Bar to Vote. Ratified 2/3/1870.
1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
1871 Gaskell Romney (Mitt’s Grandfather) born in Utah of two British Subjects, the son of Miles Romney and Elizabeth Gaskell; thereby becoming a British Subject.
The United States census lists Miles Park Romney, his two wives Hannah Hood Hill and Catherine Jane Cottam, and six of Hannah’s children, including her son Gaskell who was eight years old at the time.
1873 -Sep-15 Miles Park Romney: Marriage to Catharine Jane Cottam (1855-1918) in Salt Lake City - 10 children
1877 Aug-01 Miles Park Romney: Marriage to Annie Marie Woodbury (1858-1930) in St George Utah - 8 children
1881 Miles Park Romney Moved to St George, Utah to build Temple.
1881 Miles Park Romney Move to Az.
1882 The 1882 Edmunds Act stripped polygamists of the basic rights of U.S. citizenship, denying them the right to vote, serve on juries or hold office. Not dissimilar to current immigration raids, U.S. federal agents hunted and arrested polygamists. Polygamists were forced to leave the country or risk jail.
1886 Miles Park Romney started for Mexico with his family. According to Tom Mahoney published in 1960 called ‘The Story Of George Romney.”
According to Tom Mahoney published in 1960 called ‘The Story Of George Romney.”
- Mitt Romney’s great-grandfather fled with his three wives to Mexico so they could continue their polygamist lifestyle with a multitude of other Mormon polygamists and settled there, cutting land deals with Mexican president, Porfirio Diaz using funds that came from The Mormon Church. President Diaz was happy to have the Mormon settlers there as a buffer against the Apache Indians. (pg.51)
- With others, Helaman Pratt obtained permission from Diaz for Miles Park Romney and other Mormon refugees to buy lands and establish colonies in Mexico. Partly with funds advanced by the Church, they purchased large, mostly undeveloped tracts in Sonora and Chihuahua. Diaz was happy to have colonists there as buffers against the Apache Indians
1887 The Edmunds-Tucker Act of 1887 was enforced. Archibald Newell Hood (Hannah’s father) and her brother (Samuel) were arrested, fined, and imprisoned for several months in Salt Lake City for practicing polygamy. About 1,300 Mormon men were imprisoned in the late 1880s.
1890 9/24/1890 Morman Church advises refrain from [Polygamy.] In 1890, The Mormon Church lost their case to the Supreme Court which upheld Edmunds-Tucker Act so Utah came out with their Manifesto soon afterward which condemned plural marriage:
- The “1890 Manifesto”, sometimes simply called “The Manifesto”, is a statement which officially disavowed the continuing practice of plural marriage in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Issued by church president Wilford Woodruff in September 1890, the Manifesto was a response to mounting anti-polygamy pressure from the United States Congress, which by 1890 had disincorporated the church, escheated its assets to the U.S. federal government, and imprisoned many prominent polygamist Mormons.
- The Manifesto was a dramatic turning point in the history of the LDS Church. It officially prohibited church members from entering into any marriage prohibited by the law of the land, and made it possible for Utah to become a U.S. state.
- Nevertheless, even after the Manifesto, the church quietly continued to perform a small number of plural marriages in the United States, Mexico, and Canada, thus necessitating a Second Manifesto during U.S. congressional hearings in 1904.
In regards to the missionaries, the expatriate Mormons had to become Mexican citizens since polygamy missionary work by foreigners was prohibited by Mexican law at the time.
Since Mexico only allowed citizens to conduct missions/missionary work, and the Mormons operated missions in Mexico, then, the Mormons were Mexican citizens.
Since George W. Romney was born in Mexico, son of the head elder (Gaskell Romney), who was in Mexico for about 3 decades before George W. Romney birth, said elder must have been a Mexican citizen, therefore, could not bestow American citizenship, let alone “natural born” to George W. Romney. Since George W. Romney [Mexican or British] was therefore not an American citizen, he could not bestow natural born citizen status to his son Mitt Romney.
The operative immigration law of nations at the time, each government had a tacit agreement about such expatriates as a matter of being put into delicate situations of having to defend Americans on foreign soil. This procedure was operative when the Mormons fled Utah, the standard being that if an American stayed (at the time the accepted time frame was) 5 or so years, each country would consider they had rejected their native country’s citizenship. This made Miles Park Romney and his son George Romney both Mexican Citizens.
1895 -Feb-20 Miles Park Romney: Marriage to Anna Amelia Pratt (1876-1926) in Dublan, Chihuahua, Mexico. She is the grand daughter of Mormon Pioneer Parley Pratt.
1896 Utah becomes a State Jan 4, 1896
1897 -Feb-02 : Miles Park Romney Marriage to Emily Henrietta Eyring (1870-1947) in Dublan Mexico, widow of William Snow - no children but she had two children from the Snow marriage.
1904 -Feb-26 1895 Miles Park Romney: : Died at Colonia Dublan, Chihuahua, Mexico
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Minors (Children)
- Minor children were granted derivative citizenship when their father, or after 1922 their parent, was naturalized. This practice remained in place for children under the age of 21 from 1790 to 1940. There usually will be no record of a minor child's derivative citizenship unless he/she applied to the INS after 1929 for a certificate of citizenship.
- Between 1824 and 1906 an alien who arrived as a minor, had lived in the United States for at least 5 years before their 23rd birthday, and whose father had not become a U.S. naturalized citizen could file his declaration and petition at the same time. Although the forms used for this process varied from court to court, the declaration of intention and petition for naturalization are usually found on one form.
http://www.ourarchives.wikispaces.net/Naturalization
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Women
- Early naturalization laws did not restrict naturalization for women and in theory alien women could apply for citizenship. However a variety of laws began to limit a woman's rights to naturalization culminating in a 1855 law that effectively restricted naturalization for women. The 1855 act held that "[a]ny woman who is now or may hereafter be married to a citizen of the United States, and who might herself be lawfully naturalized, shall be deemed a citizen." Essentially the law said that a woman held the citizenship of her husband. For instance if a German woman immigrated to the United States and married a U.S. citizen, she automatically became a citizen. Or if a German couple immigrated to the United States and the husband was naturalized, his wife was considered a citizen by virtue of his naturalization. A strange quirk of this law was that if a woman who was a native-born U.S. citizen married a foreigner, the U.S. government considered that she had given up her U.S. citizenship in favor of her husband's citizenship. This was a matter of debate for some time but an act in March of 1907 codified it in law.
- Few women pursued naturalization before 1920 because women couldn't vote - the major right of citizenship - and in many places couldn't own property. Following the passage of the 19th Amendment which gave women the right to vote, there was a movement to change the laws relating to naturalization of women. Many asked why a woman should automatically be granted the right to vote through marriage. Congress passed the Married Women's Act (the Cable Act) on September 22, 1922. Women were now able to apply for naturalization on their own. Included in the Cable Act, was a provision to allow American born women who had lost their citizenship due to their marriages to foreigners to file petitions to become citizens. Many U.S. born women who had married foreign citizens did not believe they should have to file for a citizenship to which they had been born. In 1936 Congress passed a new act that allowed U.S. born women who had married foreigners between 1907 and 1922 to take an oath of allegiance (sometimes mistakenly called a repatriation petition).
http://www.ourarchives.wikispaces.net/women
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1904 Second Manifesto of Church during U.S. congressional hearings in 1904 rejecting Polygamy.
1907 George W. Romney was born in Mexico - Mitt's father, George W. Romney, was born in a Mormon Colony, Colonia Dublán, in Galeana, State of Chihuahua, Mexico, on July 8, 1907. His parents were Gaskell and Anna Amelia Pratt Romney, both ex-patriot British citizens who were born in Utah and who met and married in Mexico.
Def. Since George W. Romney was born on foreign soil, this raises the question of citizenship “by descent” of children born to American citizens on foreign soil. Legal scholars insist that the question of citizenship lies in two concepts of international law: a) birth in-country, or jure soli (by right of the soil), or b) from birth outside the country to parents who are citizens, jure sanguinis (by right of blood).
George was born in Mexico of British Subjects so he has neither jure soli (by right of the soil), or b) from birth outside the country to parents who are citizens, jure sanguinis (by right of blood).
1908 Mitt’s mother, Lenore Romney, was born in Logan, Utah on November 9, 1908. She was an American citizen at birth.
1913 George & parents move to El Paso refugee center. Exiles temporary. George: “The first displaced persons of the 20th Century.”
1938 Twenty-six years after the Romneys were forced from Mexico, the case of "Gaskell Romney vs. United States of Mexico" was heard in Salt Lake City in 1938. Gaskell requested $28,753 in damages. He was awarded $9,163, court records show — a sizable amount then.
The records say Gaskell gave half of the award to his son, George, which would have helped to put him on his road to becoming chairman of American Motors and governor of Michigan.
In 1941, three years after receiving the Mexican financial settlement, the Romneys made a
1947 Mitt Romney was born in Detroit, Michigan on March 12, 1947. His parents were George W. and Lenore LaFount Romney, who married in Salt Lake City on July 2, 1931. At the time of his birth, Mitt’s father served as general manager of the Automobile Manufacturers Association, in Detroit.
1967 However, according to an October 15, 1967 New York Times interview with Romney, who was then seeking the 1968 Republican nomination for President of the United States, it appears that he did not at any time apply for naturalization.
- According to the Times report, “Governor Romney said today that the question of his constitutional eligibility for office had been studied by lawyers and that he believed it posed no problem… Governor Romney said that he did not have to file any papers to become an American citizen since both his parents had been born in the United States…”
However, they were British Subjects, or Mexicans.
And 7 FAM 1121.3 Status of Inhabitants of Territories, Absent Laws Defining Status
(TL:CON-66; 10-10-96) c. A child born in an outlying possession before January 13, 1941, whose father (or mother if the child was born out of wedlock) was a non-citizen U.S. national, was held to have acquired the parent’s status, and a child born there to alien parents was held not to have acquired U.S. nationality.
Wherefore: Objector challenges Mitt Romney and or his agents to prove that both of his parents at the time of his birth were US Citizens.
I specifically object to the Zero Volumes, Pages, and Signatures, ie. To all volume numbers, all page numbers, and all line numbers containing any signatures, and to all the signatures, in that they purport, in the language of the petition at the top of each page, to designate the unqualified candidate, Mitt Romney.
I have no objections to any signature other than to the candidate they purport to designate.
I have no objections to any portion of any petition or any signature line or witness statement, nor any other reasons for any such objection, other than: that the Candidate they purport to designate is unqualified.
I object to the the total number of signatures submitted, Zero [0] because the Candidate they purport to designate is unqualified.
All the zero signatures are grouped together in one group, for the above reasons, because the Candidate they purport to designate is unqualified.
No specifications of objections to any petition will be considered by the Board unless the objector filing the specifications personally delivers or mails by registered or certified mail a duplicate copy of the specifications to each candidate for public office named on the petition. In the case of a petition containing candidates for party position, service of the specifications shall be made on either the named candidates or the first person named on the petition's committee to fill vacancies. Service shall be made on or before the date of filing of any specifications with the Board. Proof of service shall accompany the specifications or be received by the end of business two days following the filing of the specifications, whichever is later.
As required, prior to filing this Specification of Objections, a true and correct copy of it, together with any and all attachments was mailed by, registered or certified mail
Certificate 7011 1570 0003 5313 5110
to the only person and address named on the Romney's Document as the Representative of the Candidate for service of this notice:
Miss Megan Sowards
Deputy General counsel for Mitt Romney
585 Commercial Street
Boston, MA 02109
Proof of such Service is attached hereto in the form of a copy of the certified mailing receipt for the same and Certificate of Service.
Signed _________________________________
Objector's name: _____________________________, Objector
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