That's a key question. I've posted before that the BC certificates might have been pre-numbered and batches sent to the various locations authorized to use them.
Pre-numbering would give a very important control and make it more difficult for people to forge or counterfeit BCs: they'd have to use numbers already used on a legitimate BC, or use some number never issued by the state.
Whether BC forms were pre-numbered in 1961 is an important question. Someone has probably answered it.
I believe the Daily Pen demonstrated.
1 ) Each Hospital and region send a batch of BC’s to the State.
2)The State makes sure, for each region batch, the doc’s are in chronological order.
3) The BC numbers are assigned.
The births are them sent to the newspapers in batch/date order
That’s why 0bama’s notice is near the end of the newspaper column, even though babies born Aug 5 would be ahead of him
Jerome Corsi has at least attempted to. He claims that forms were NOT pre-numbered, that the certificates were stamped at the moment processed; and that therefore the non-sequential issue is a smoking gun.
At the moment, I don't know what evidence he has of numbering at processing time. Doing things in that way seems counterintuitive to me. I would frankly more expect pre-printed forms. It's simpler.
I also, to be honest, don't have 100% confidence in the quality of Corsi's research. Why? Because he seems to be prominently behind the $2 million spent claim, which I haven't been able to find any real evidence to support.
So for this particular issue, a lot hinges on whether Corsi has some real hard evidence of stamping at processing time. Hopefully we'll see soon what he's got.