“If you look at the 042-68-#### series, you can see that there’s a broad range of birthdates that doesn’t make sense if they were sequential. And the SSA has even announced in the past that they are not assigned sequentially.”
There are more than 125,000 listings for SSNs starting with 042 here:
http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi
WITHOUT EXCEPTION, the issuing state was CT. Thus, if there’s definitive evidence Obama used an SSN starting with that sequence, that seems highly suspicious. Is there any reason to doubt the claims this number appears on various official records attributable to Obama?
I think the point is that in 1977 when it seems this SS# was issued, and thru to today, anyone eligible for an SS# can apply to any SSA office s/he chooses. It may not seem logical for a teenager living in HI to apply through a CT office, but it’s not illegal. Applying for multiple SS#’s is illegal, if that was, in fact, done.
I am not doubting at all that it’s his. I don’t think anyone is.