“Are you saying that Dr. Onaka is not aware of the verifications?”
If you were a state official and the AG of another state asked you to verify whether Barry’s claimed BC was legit, would you regard the matter as significant enough to warrant your personal verifiable signature and not a signature stamp accompanied by unverifiable initials?
Have you ever seen a case where a person denied that initials were theirs and a handwriting expert authenticated the initials? In my experience a full signature is present on at least one page of a legal document when initials are used on other pages.
Use of a stamp and initials obviously provides a legal escape hatch of “plausible deniability” and a delaying opportunity in the event of any forensic challenge to the verification. Onaka can say “I didn’t use my stamp or authorize use of my stamp and those are not my initials.” How can it be proved that he is lying when his actual verifiable signature is not on the document?
“If you were a state official and the AG of another state asked you to verify whether Barry’s claimed BC was legit, would you regard the matter as significant enough to warrant your personal verifiable signature and not a signature stamp accompanied by unverifiable initials?”
It wasn’t an AG but SoS that requested the verifications, and maybe I would take it seriously. Then again if I thought the SoS was involved in a publicity stunt or trying to placate a group of people who had for four years been vilifying you and your office and bothering your employees maybe not.
“Have you ever seen a case where a person denied that initials were theirs and a handwriting expert authenticated the initials? In my experience a full signature is present on at least one page of a legal document when initials are used on other pages.”
How many Hawaii verifications have you seen? What is the standard procedure for Hawaii to create a verification?
BTW, the Arizona and Kansas verifications are not stamped. Only the MDEC verification going to a Federal Court has a stamp and the initials ATO. Coincidence?