So you cant use a posted internet graphic as an official, legal form. I agree. So what? That was never the issue. People are twisting ‘invalid’ to mean ‘not real’ as in not an image from a real COLB.
You CANNOT deduce from the graphic Obama’s website posted that the original COLB it was produced from is invalid.
Capiche?
So any gross errors, use of the wrong phrase, or badly stitched together borders made of the wrong size diamonds doesn't count?
You have it backwards.
You can't prove a web image is from a genuine document.
I don't think so. People are saying invalid because it breaks the link to anything that verifies the tie to the valid document.
We are being asked to believe the contents of the document, but the one piece of information that links the image to the real thing is lost. It begins to feel like the "fake, but accurate" of older days, where we are to believe that the contents of the image are true, even if the document that contains them may not exist. If we had the certificate number, we can verify the existence of the real document, and then confirm the contents.
But I think you know this.
-PJ