This brings up an interesting conundrum, though. As I recall, no one who turned 18 then registered. I have lots of family members, friends, etc, who assumed that they didn't have to and never did. However, when Carter re-instituted the registration in 1980, this may? have triggered a requirement that all males between the ages of 18 and 25. This would include Obama and many of those who thought they never had to register. Another 'law' that everyone is guilty of breaking, I guess.
[Obama turned 18 during the window (1975-1980) when males were not required to register. If he was in the United States then, he would remember that. I don’t know why he would fake a registration now. That seems like a stupid slip up by his campaign bent on covering his tracks.]
Not true:
On July 2, 1980, however, President Carter signed Proclamation 4771, Registration Under the Military Selective Service Act, retroactively re-establishing the Selective Service registration requirement for all 18–26 year old male citizens born on or after January 1, 1960. Only men born between March 29, 1957, and December 31, 1959, were completely exempt from Selective Service registration. The first registrations after Proclamation 4771 took place on Monday, July 21, 1980, for those men born in January, February and March 1960 at U.S. Post Offices. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays were reserved for men born in the later quarters of the year, and registration for men born in 1961 began the following week.
I knew Øbama had to register because I had just missed the cutoff by four months.