A judge has refused a Vermont man’s request to strike Barack Obama’s name from the state’s election ballots. The lawsuit was filed by H. Brooke Paige, who said Obama is ‘‘not a natural born citizen’’ because both of his parents were not born in the United States. Obama was born in Hawaii and is a United States citizen. Judge Robert Bent ruled Friday that the court has been presented with an insufficient basis on which to issue a temporary or even a preliminary injunction. The Burlington Free Press reported that the judge also said there was little evidence to support Paige’s claim about Obama not being a ‘‘natural born citizen.’’
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