The Hawaii Health Code states the Hawaiian Certificate of Live Birth serves as "prima facie" evidence of the birth, if and when certain other conditions are met.
Nevertheless, prima facie evidence or self-authenticating official documents are subject to rebuttal and impeachment in an administrative hearing, a court of law, or legislative impeachment in the event such a document and its authentication can be evidenced to be a forgery and fraudulent.
Millions of Puerto Rican birth certificates were recently invalidated due to the high incidence of fraud and identity theft connected with their insecure issuance and usage. Consequently, it is a well known fact of life that the birth certificates authenticated by a state government or territorial government are subject to a very high incidence of forgery and fraud, making their authentication unreliable as a true determination of the facts of birth.
Puerto Rico Birth Certificates Law 191 of 2009 (As Amended)
Fact Sheet
The government of Puerto Rico has enacted a new law (Law 191 of 2009, amended June 2010) to strengthen the issuance and usage of birth certificates, to combat fraud and to protect the identity and credit of all people born in Puerto Rico. The new law was based on collaboration with the U.S. Department of State (DOS) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to address the fraudulent use of Puerto Rico-issued birth certificates to unlawfully obtain U.S. passports, Social Security benefits, and other federal services.
In the past, many common official and unofficial transactions in Puerto Rico unnecessarily required the submission, retention, and storage of birth certificates. As a result, hundreds of thousands of original birth certificates were stored without adequate protection, making them easy targets for theft. Subsequently, many birth certificates have been stolen from schools and other institutions, sold on the black market for prices up to $10,000 each, and used to illegally obtain passports, licenses, and other government and private sector documentation and benefits. The common Hispanic names of most individuals born in Puerto Rico made the birth certificates highly desirable on the black market. This left Puerto Rico-born citizens vulnerable to identity theft, ruined credit, stolen Social Security benefits, and increased “random” security checks at airports, among others.
Understanding the enormous risks to all individuals as well as the very significant homeland and national security concerns, the government of Puerto Rico took action to improve the security of all birth certificates and to better protect the public from fraud and identity theft. Law 191 (as Amended) implements the following changes: 1) Starting July 1, 2010, the Puerto Rico Department of Health will begin issuing new, more secure birth certificates through the Vital Statistics Record Office. 2) On September 30, 2010, the law will invalidate all birth certificates issued before July 1, 2010. Until September 30, 2010, all birth certificates issued prior to July 1, 2010 will remain valid. The purpose of this three-month overlap in the validity of the old and the new birth certificates is to provide those Puerto Rico-born -- who may need a birth certificate for an upcoming transaction -- a three-month window to apply for and receive the new document during which time their current birth certificate will still be valid.
In order to upgrade service for those seeking the new, more secure birth certificates, the government of Puerto Rico has launched a new on-line application process on the E-Government website: www.pr.gov. Instructions on how to apply on-line or by mail, as well as information on Puerto Rico’s birth certificate law, can be found at:
www.prfaa.com/birthcertificates/ and
www.prfaa.com/certificadosdenacimiento/.
Puerto Rico isn’t a state of the Union and if you can find one example since 1959 and Hawai’ian statehood of a Hawai’ian birth certificate being rejected as valid by another state or by the federal government, please post a link to it.
EVERY state in the union can suffer identity theft involving counterfeit or fraudulent birth certificates. Somebody is going to have to uncover specific evidence that that occurred in 1961 regarding the birth of Barack Hussein Obama II.
No one has been able to convince a court of law of those allegations. On three separate occasions the state of Hawaii has issued official statements saying that Zero’s original, vault copy birth records are valid and authentic.
Only four individuals have seen those records: the previous health director, Dr. Fukino, the Registrar of Vital Statistics, Dr. Onaka, the current Health Director, Ms. Fuddy and whoever the Health Department employee was who put the long form in a photocopying machine and pushed the button.
“CNN: Health Director, Dr. Chiyome Fukimo ‘Obama was 100 percent born here’”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9D4n6_Uifk
Impeaching the Hawaii records will take a civil lawsuit with a plaintiff who has standing to sue and in more than 70 attempts in original jurisdiction courts at the local, state and federal levels, no one has been granted standing. Or impeaching the Hawaii birth certificate will take a criminal investigation and a grand jury looking into forgery or fraud. No local, state or federal prosecutor has attempted that route either. Not one of the 535 members of Congress has asked for a Special Counsel to be appointed to look into this matter.