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Related: About this forumBirthers Try To Get Obama Removed From the Ballot in Ohio (reason: Social Security #)
Since the Obamas birth certificate is real, birthers are now claiming that his Social Security number is fake and are trying to get him thrown off the ballot in Ohio.
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Granny Birther is basing her case on the her claim that the first three digits of President Obamas Social Security number were only issued to people born in Connecticut.
Oh no, cue the spooky music. Boy those birthers have got Obama this time.
Except that Granny Birther was wrong, very wrong. Media Matters did a bit crack research via Google I am guessing and quickly discovered this on the Social Security Administration website, Prior to 1972, cards were issued in local Social Security offices around the country and the Area Number represented the State in which the card was issued. This did not necessarily have to be the State where the applicant lived, since a person could apply for their card in any Social Security office. Since 1972, when SSA began assigning SSNs and issuing cards centrally from Baltimore, the area number assigned has been based on the ZIP code in the mailing address provided on the application for the original Social Security card. The applicants mailing address does not have to be the same as their place of residence. Thus, the Area Number does not necessarily represent the State of residence of the applicant, either prior to 1972 or since.
If Granny Birther would have done a Google search of her own, she would have seen that the whole theory that her legal petition is based on was debunked in 2011. It actually gets worse for our birther hero as she had been investigating Obamas Social Security number since 2009, and in order to establish legal standing she has declared herself a write in candidate for president.
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http://www.politicususa.com/birthers-obama-removed-ballot-ohio.html
Here's a 42 page LIST of OVER 100 birther law suits and challenges against Obama: PDF: http://tesibria.typepad.com/whats_your_evidence/BIRTHER%20CASE%20LIST.pdf
Nine are 'pending'
Birthers have not won even one case yet
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Birthers Try To Get Obama Removed From the Ballot in Ohio (reason: Social Security #) (Original Post)
Tx4obama
Jul 2012
OP
I can't WAIT until all our FEMA camps are ready so we won't have to hear from these people anymore!
NYC_SKP
Jul 2012
#1
no constitutional requirement to have a social security number to be on a ballot
CreekDog
Jul 2012
#5
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)1. I can't WAIT until all our FEMA camps are ready so we won't have to hear from these people anymore!
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)2. LOL :) n/t
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)3. +++ 1,000,000 +++
Historic NY
(37,458 posts)8. Reuse the Katrina trailers....
I heard they are palaces..
GoCubsGo
(32,100 posts)10. Too nice for them.
Let them live in their hero, Joe Arpaio's tent cities in the desert.
marybourg
(12,648 posts)4. Remember the "good old days" when
rite wingers used to complain bout "frivolous lawsuits" ? We don't hear so much about them now.
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)5. no constitutional requirement to have a social security number to be on a ballot
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,452 posts)6. How do these people
even have the SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA????
Oh yeah, and Connecticut? Last I looked, it was a state at the time of his birth (just like Hawaii), so what does it matter anyway?
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)7. Look at the silver lining...
money and effort the birthers spend on their frivolous lawsuits is money and effort not spent on their candidate. We should be encouraging them!
left is right
(1,665 posts)9. I thought I read a long time ago that
the IRS creates a dummy number for the sitting President repuke and Democratic.
LiberalFighter
(51,276 posts)11. Not true.
LiberalFighter
(51,276 posts)12. If we go by their logic then Reagan never should had been President
He was born in Illinois but his SSN was issued from Iowa.
siligut
(12,272 posts)13. "Media Matters did a bit crack research via Google"
Why do we even give the Birthers the time of day?