So nice,
Rondeau Gielow wrote it twice: P&E:
Ensuring Legality in our Elections:
Harold Gielow (to AGoVA) wrote:I write well before our next presidential election to encourage you to seek clarity on the constitutional natural born citizen eligibility requirement for US president so that our commissioner of elections can fulfill his responsibility under Virginia law to ensure legality in our elections.
This constitutional eligibility requirement has never been the subject of more than dicta by our US Supreme Court. Countless challenges have been made to contenders eligibility status due to this requirement. That we, as a nation, do not know with clarity the meaning of an eligibility requirement for the highest political office in the land is astounding. What is more astounding is the degree to which opinions vary as to its meaning. Newsweek ran a front cover piece claiming that Prince Archie could one day run for US president. More to the legal point, without legal clarity, our Virginia Commissioner of Elections cannot fulfill his legal requirement to ensure those on Virginia ballots are eligible for the positions they seek, this requirement impacting the offices of president and vice president.
Respectfully request you seek a U.S. Supreme Court decision defining, once and for all, the meaning of this US Constitutional eligibility requirement. Absent such a decision, there are multiple persons already considering a run of questionable eligibility, Tulsi Gabbard, born in unincorporated American Samoa, and Niki Haley, born in the US to non citizen parents, being only two.
Without clarity, the only way for the commissioner of elections to do his job of ensuring legality in our elections would be to enact potentially over broad exclusions for those of questionable article II eligibility to appear on Virginia ballots for these offices. Waiting to take such actions until ballots are printed would be unwise. Raising the issue early in the process is necessary.
I know Justice Thomas has joked* before congress that the court is avoiding the issue. Many Americans do not believe this is a joking matter. It is certainly unsettling that a major news publication believes that a prince of England could run for US President. By many persons interpretations, so could a child born in the US to illegal immigrants or, for that matter, to non permanent legal US residents here on student visas with citizenship in other countries.** I look forward to your response.
Have fun sitting by the mailbox.
To state the obvious: the first and fatal mistake is the presumption the state is
required to police its ballots.
On one hand, I appreciate Gielow's attempt to Tom Sawyer the AGoVA into filing an eligibility challenge on his behalf. Over/under how many letters Gielow will send before getting the clue? (Cf. Laity, who remains clueless.) OTOH,

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Acknowledging that Thomas was joking won't make you any friends at the P&E.
** Assuming a human ever reads this (and reads to the very end), this reference to Harris is too subtle for anyone but birthers.