States Open The Door To Foreign-Born Presidential Candidate On Their Ballots
By M.D. Kittle Shiva Ayyadurai is fighting to get on ballots, but the naturalized U.S. citizen from India fails to meet a key constitutional requirement. Chiva Ayyadurai has a very interesting political story to tell. He was born in 1963 in Bombay (now Mumbai) “ a low-caste untouchable in India’s caste system” and moved with his family to the United States and a better life when he was seven years old. He graduated with an undergraduate diploma in computer science and electrical engineering from MIT, where he holds advanced degrees, according to his bio, including a PhD in biological engineering. He claims to have invented email and was reportedly briefly married to television star Fran Drescher. Now Ayyadurai wants to be president of the United States. But he can’t. While he became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1983, he’s not a natural-born U.S. citizen — one of three requirements to be president. It’s clearly spelled out...