Hawaii maintains original, paper-copy, birth certificates.
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”...
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Hawaii maintains original, paper-copy, birth certificates.
I know where the "copies" come from that are certified as copies of the original... they come from the digital version. They just push a computer-key and "out comes the copy" ... :-)