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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (42944)4/26/2010 3:14:19 PM
From: TimF1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
You seem to be stumbling over your false understanding that

"Federal authority over the conduct of FEDERAL ELECTIONS is a long-settled Constitutional matter" equals "states can not regulate federal elections".

It means no such thing. It only means that federal laws that conflict with state laws render those state laws (or at least the conflicting parts of them) inoperative. But absent such conflict, the state laws and regulation still are in effect.

You are forgetting the several national laws that I specifically referred to --- addressed at settling lingering questions about Constitutional eligibility for the office of the President.

Those lay out eligibility, they don't preclude requiring demonstration of eligibility, they just help determine what would have to be demonstrated if a state, or the federal government required such evidence.
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