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Birmingham man challenging Obama's right to run says he is ex-supporter turned skeptic
Published: Friday, December 16, 2011
By Eric Velasco --
The Birmingham News The Birmingham News
blog.al.com
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama --- The Birmingham man whose lawsuit challenges Barack Obama's citizenship and right to seek re-election said today he was an Obama supporter who became convinced the president is fraudulently using forged documents.
"I don't hate him," said Albert E. Hendershot, whose lawsuit in Jefferson County Circuit Court seeks to block Obama's inclusion in the March 13 Democratic Party primary ballot.
"I voted for him (in 2008)," Hendershot said. "But the inconsistencies are too strong not to be investigated. We want a temporary injunction until it is proven he is eligible to be on the ballot."
Hendershot said he is part of a group of people in Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina challenging Obama's right to run for president.
"We are exercising our rights under the United States Constitution and the state of Alabama's constitution as well," he said. "We want to show the evidence I have, definite proof, of his ineligibility to be on the ballot - information that would disqualify his election of 2008."
Bradley Davidson, executive director of the Alabama Democratic Party said today the party has not certified its list of presidential candidates, so Obama is not currently on any state ballot. But the lawsuit if frivolous, even when Obama becomes an official candidate, Davidson said.
"You're aware he is a citizen, aren't you?" Davidson said when asked for comment. "This lawsuit has no merit because the president is a citizen."
Obama's citizenship also was an issue when he ran for president in 2008. Federal judges have dismissed suits challenging his citizenship in 2008 and 2009.
After businessman Donald Trump publicly questioned Obama's birthplace, the White House in April produced Obama's "long-form" certificate of live birth at a Hawaiian hospital in 1961. But that still did not settle the matter for many.
A USA Today/Gallup poll conducted just before the release showed 24 percent of respondents questioned if Obama was born in the U.S., while 56 percent said he "definitely" or "probably" is a U.S. citizen. The rest did not respond or said they did not know enough to say.
The poll found that 75 percent of the registered voters who said Obama was a citizen also said they intended to vote for him, while 85 percent of those who did not believe he was a citizen said they definitely would not vote for him, according to Gallup.com.
Hendershot's suit claims he has "staggering" evidence that Obama is using a fraudulently obtained Social Security number issued in Connecticut. He also claims the Obama birth certificate from Hawaii is a forgery and says he has other evidence of misrepresentation, fraud and identity theft.
Hendershot has requested oral arguments in his lawsuit. Judge Helen Shores Lee has not scheduled any hearings.
"I've gotten hate mail since I filed this," Hendershot said. "But it's my right to know the man I voted for is a citizen of the United States."
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