Georgia judge to hear arguments on eligibility of Barack Obama on ballot; Orly Taitz hails decision

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13. First, its an administrative law judge

the "court" that made this ruling is the Office of Administrative Hearings for the State of Georgia. Among its responsibilities, the OAHS handles ballot disputes. Under Georgia law, apparently, eligible voters have standing to challenge to challenge the qualfications of a candidate for office who files a notice of candidacy." Crazy Taitzy rounded up some Georgians to file complaints challenging Obama's qualifications. The issue initially was whether the law applied to candidates at the primary stage. The judge said he couldn't find anything in the plain language of the law to distinguish primary elections from general elections, so he let the case go forward. As far as whether Crazy gets to depose anyone...as I read the applicable rules of procedure, she only will get to conduct discovery if and to the extent the judge allows it. For the moment at least, he's denied a previous request for discovery on the grounds that it was for the purpose of responding to the Obama campaign's motion to dismiss and that's now moot.