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Could someone help me? I am still confused about the steps taken by the Obama people to take the 2 certified copies of Obama's long form birth certificate and pass it on to reporters at the April 27, 2011 White House press conference to great fanfare.
My main question is this: Why hand out PDF copies ?
That is, why didn't Obama's staff simply take one of the two copies and pass it through a type of simple scanner that we have at home, and then pass out those simple scanned copies to the reporters?
Thanks for anyone's help.
As far as I can tell from the PDF and circumstantial evidence, what was released was a regeneration of an old low tech scan of the original. AFAIK there is no true original document any more, just confusingly old tech legally equivalent I age files. There seems little official commentary about the PDF’s history.