[Star Traveler]

Yes... but note... same words, but it’s the *word* that they leave out that is the key...

CNN means — “Obama’s original birth certificate” destroyed (”paper” left out)

Hawaii mean — “original birth certificate on record” kept (”digital” left out)

Does that explain what I mean by the *key* is the word that they *left out*.... (”paper” — versus — “digital”).

[MissTickly]

If they have the original certificate (digital) why would they tell CNN they no longer have the original (paper or digital)? The issue being dead as a result.

Again, there’s a big lie here.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Vital records (birth, death, marriage, and divorce certificates) for events that occurred in Hawaii are received and preserved by the Office of Health Status Monitoring, a unit of the Department of Health (DOH). In Hawaii

I cannot find anything that states Hawaii destroys paper. Do you have a source?

It don't make a lick of sense to me to destroy original documents, that's my opinion; but I cannot find anything that says that Hawaii stored or destroyed the original documents.

I come from a time of second and third generation mainframes and PC DOS / original Windows toys -- we'd have been shot if we destroyed the paper.