As one who has to deal with dates regarding several stops that paperwork makes in its journey to the final destination(my desk), the date placed on all final paperwork that is used for all reference pertaining to that document is the date it was completed, not started.
This leaves one with a common sense & logical conclusion that the announcements would have also been 3 days apart.
But if you truly get absolute/concrete confirmation aka prima facie evidence that the terms ‘filed’ & ‘accepted’ are indeed not used interchangeable and do mean something different than what Okubo has stated, my hats off to you.
What I’m saying is that I don’t know. What Okubo said about the terminology doesn’t necessarily square with the other sources of information we have. Just like everything else that has come from Hawaii. That’s why I say we need an official legal investigation by law enforcement. That is the only we’re EVER gonna know what’s really going on.
Her statement that they give it the state certificate number at the DOH office, however, DOES jive with what we can see on the certificates themselves. Hopefully I can post more later regarding that.