As a constituent, I have formally requested that Secretary of State Ken Bennett treat all presidential candidates the same.

I request that he make Michigan produce the birth certificate of Willard Mitt Romney in order to place the presumptive Republican presidential nominee on the Arizona ballot. Bennett has said that he made the request to Hawaii for confirmation of Barack Obama's birth certificate because he had been asked to do so by a constituent but that he had not done the same for Romney because "no one had asked."

I have now asked. I will await our secretary of state's response.

-- Carole DeAngeli, Tucson