It is in our digital age, and it is for purposes of the law Clinton signed in 2001 allowing states to convert over to digital systems and discard original paper...
An original image file isn’t even a certificate until it’s printed on paper. And again, that would be a duplicate.
Let me offer one interesting aspect of this “game”. Dumping all paper documents and going to strictly a digital environment....leads to one classic scenario. You place a nuke in the upper atmosphere....say four miles above Seattle...it explodes. The EMP involved...will destroy anything of a digital nature...within seconds. There is no recovery for data. You can remanufacture your AM radio, your computer, your watch, your CD player....but you can’t reconstruct the data (unless if it was stored in some secret vault in Utah, which is very unlikely).
So...is this what we are going to accomplish? All data gone from a society that digitized it?