[moehoward]

Weak demo, and many of his points are incorrect.

There is absolutely no question the White House version has been intentionally manipulated. Definitive proof below...

There are character duplications throughout the document. No amount of "optimization" or OCR will produce these anomalies. The only way this could happen is by copy and paste.

- The As in "STATE OF HAWAII" and "DEPARTMENT (of health)"
- The Ts, Hs and last two Es in "DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH"

- The first two squares in box #4

- The second square in box#3 and the first square in 7g

Close up


Side by Side

- The two 1s in "File Number 151"

[al_c]

Now that is some interesting information. We'll see if it gains any ground .....

[SteveH]

Butter,

This is the kind of analysis that I was attempting to encourage in my private communication to you, the only difference being that Moe analyzed the characters, not the security color background. Regardless, it is the same principle. A scanned document containing too many identical shapes is statistically so unlikely as to be nearly impossible.

Your raised stamp issues are OK but as it concerns only one raised stamp it could be argued away as an anomaly of lighting. Eg, you did not use sufficiently high powered lighting in your tests, whereas the scanner used for the Obama COLB used a high powered xenon bulb or whatever which had the side effect of washing out raised irregularities. I know, it is unlikely, but theoretically possible, and that is all someone would need to poke a logic hole in the contention...