Clinton signed legislation in 2001 that allowed states to convert to digital information and discard their paper. Hawaii converted the information with the birth certificate records over to digital and discarded their paper. The original birth certificate is now an image file and is still intact. All they do when someone wants their certified copy of their birth certificate is that they print out their high resolution image original stamp and certify it and you’ve got your certified birth certificate. Nothing is lost and/or changed, except the fact of “going digital”...
I disagree, integrity is lost. Digital images are too easy to manipulate. Authenticity is important in archiving vital records, they’ve compromised that.
But, I am still not convinced that CNN is correct in their claim the paper was destroyed. There seems to be room for argument there, too. More questions.
“Nothing is lost and/or changed, except the fact of “going digital”...”
So The Marxist Onada continues to play now you see it, now you don’t with the birth certificate.
I think they were pretty confident they could ultimately slide by the issue. They almost got away with it.
But when the military officer filed his suit against Onada, there was no putting the genie back in the bottle. And now a judge has committed to hearing the case on “its merits”. It would seem the appropriate thing to do to clear the air once and for all. If Onada had nothing to hide he would be encouraging it.
Despite everything that’s been written and said from Onada and his camp, I have yet to see a Hawaii bureaucrat directly quoted on Onada’s citizenship qualification or the existence of an official Hawaiian birth certificate documenting Onadas birth place. None of the documents presented so far include an actual stamped birth certificate. It appears they may een be outright fakes, but I’ll leave that for others to determine. The bottom line is that Onada has yet to present any credible evidence that he meets the Constitutional requirement of having to be born on American soil to qualify as an American presidential candidate.
Does anyone have a different take?
Hawaii maintains original, paper-copy, birth certificates.