How bizarre. The BOH, according to one of our posters who contacted them, says they prepared the forms first ~ showing the addresses, etc. along with the FORM NUMBER (which is rubber stamped) and then sent them out to the hospitals and other birthing centers.
There's a sidebar issue of what they did when a baby was born at home and that is brought into the Obama question to explain a couple of other obscure anomalies.
Then, when the baby was born and one of the prepared forms selected, the rest of the information was typed in ~ e.g. BABY NAME.
No typist at the BOH doing preparation of the forms would know that!
The process in place then required that typing take place in at least 2 locations. Unless you envision someone toting a typewriter around to the hospitals there's no reason to believe one typewriter was used to prepare the forms.
That means that the discovery that there are DIFFERENCES in font means 2 typewriters in 2 locations (at a minimum).
Other Freepers, in an effort to demonstrate that the form was a forgery showed that the letters have vertical alignment. That's what you get when you use the same tab settings on 2 or more typewriters ~ you get vertical alignment.
Yet other Freepers pointed to OTHER birth certificates where this doesn't happen.
We determined we had no way of knowing if there was an iron clad way for completing these forms.
More interesting was the LEE question ~ my take is this was a person whose name may have been, in Chinese, Hawaii Lee.
That is as yet unresolved.
That would explain differences in typefaces between one entry line and another but Mr. Irey found differences within the same word on some lines. Are you suggesting that they typed BA on one date and then came back and typed RACK to finish the word on another day on another typewriter as on line 8 of the form?
That would explain differences in typefaces between one entry line and another but Mr. Irey found differences within the same word on some lines. Are you suggesting that they typed BA on one date and then came back and typed RACK to finish the word on another day on another typewriter as on line 8 of the form?