He was born in August 1961. Supposedly he filed with Selective Service in July 1980. According to the law, you are required to file 30 days before or within 30 days after your 18th birthday. Obama turned 18 in 1979, not 1980. We know he was in Hawaii in ‘79 because that is the year he graduated from Punahou School. According to this info, he was actually 19 when he “allegedly” filed, which would have put him in violation of the law back then.
According to the law, you are required to file 30 days before or within 30 days after your 18th birthday. Obama turned 18 in 1979, not 1980.
Except that you weren't required to register at all until 1980.
Quoting wikipedia:
Then on July 2, 1980, President Jimmy 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.
so Obama wouldn't have registered in 1979 because he was not required to.
According to this
http://www.sss.gov/PDFs/MSSA-2003.pdf
scroll down to 1-103 and you’ll find that he was required to register in the six days starting July 28, 1980.
There was no SSS to register with in 1979.