Cruz, Rubio, Sanders, Trump all OK'ed by ballot commission

On Tuesday, November 24 the New Hampshire Ballot Law Commission ruled that Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Bernie Sanders, and Donald Trump all qualify for the Presidential Primary. 

Four individuals challenged that Ted Cruz qualified as a natural born citizen of the U.S., because he was born in Canada.

Sen. Cruz refuted that claim because his mother was a U.S. citizen, and therefore Cruz did not have to go through the naturalization process to become a U.S. citizen.

Marco Rubio faced a complaint because his parents were not U.S. citizens at the time of his birth; Robert Laity argued that Rubio therefore did not match the definition of a natural born citizen.

An attorney for Sen. Rubio supplied rulings from the U.S. Supreme Court that show the definition of natural born citizen includes children born in the United States to non-citizen parents.

Bernie Sanders faced a challenge because he is not registered as a member of the Democratic Party in his home state of Vermont. His U.S. Senate website also describes him as an independent. 

However, the New Hampshire Democratic Party supported Sen. Sanders' credentials as a Democrat.

Former New Hampshire Republican Party Chair Fergus Cullen challenged Donald Trump's eligibility as a Republican candidate "because his views, expressed over decades, are inconsistent with the Republican Party Platform." 

Trump's team responded that Trump is a registered Republican in New York. An attorney for Trump also wrote, "Cullen's thoughts concerning how much a candidate conforms to his version of the ideal Republican is wholly and completely irrelevant under applicable law." 

"I think there is an underlying current obviously that when somebody is filing for President of the United States, [it] takes a pretty overwhelming head of steam to deny the New Hampshire voters the opportunity to vote for somebody," said Ballot Law Commission Chair Brad Cook. 

The New Hampshire Ballot Law Commission also heard complaints against the citizenship of Pres. Barack Obama (D) in 2011 and 2008.

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