The actual program is for a DELAYED Birth Certificate. There were many people born long before birth certificates were mandatory so therefore you have to apply for a delayed one. This requires a LOT of information to do.
I should not have posted that without looking at the law. I was sent that reference without any explanation of the background in connection with a discussion about my concern that birth certificates get issued in various jurisdictions on the basis of a number of different kinds of support.
I have always thought that ultimately, Obama will turn up with some kind of document issued by Hawaii Department of Health that he will claim is a birth certificate. Although the August 8 date, four days after the claimed birth, looks like it might have resulted from Stanley Ann returning from Kenya and filing something, or having her mother file something, I have also thought when they returned from Indonesia, they might have posted another affidavit type of filing to beef up their earlier data.
But in the context of your analysis, I agree, the late filing rule might well have been difficult for them to comply with.
As I stated in a previous post, that filing date is not a smoking gun. My own birth was such and such a day and the filing date was 14 days later. That would all depend on when all the information got to the vital statistics office. Mail usually takes several days. They would then put the date they received it as the filing date.