The list is already manipulated though. If they wanted a name added or deleted they could just manually add or delete it. That’s how Norman and Nathan Asing got on there.
In the index pages I’ve seen there are duplicate entries for the same person. The names are slightly different but it’s clear that it’s the same person - as, for instance, somebody who was a “Jr.” Usually the difference in the names on the 2 records is whether there’s an initial or a full middle name. Stanley Ann Dunham Obama Soetoro was a master at using different variations of names and initials - or the people hiding her records are masters at it. It’s a way that Muslims also hide their identities and ensure that they are “overlooked” in searches/matches, etc, IMHO. Different spellings, different combinations of names, different combinations of initials and words...
So when it comes to the birth index they’ve got a lot of leeway - if they’re going to edit the printout.
I REALLY wish I could spend some time looking around at that birth index...
It seems to me they neatly edited that index by what we can see there. I'm really only interested in why there would be a duplicate entry above the name for zero. A duplicate entry for OBADO whose name we are expected to read as MAE, which doesn't stand for a first name, but looks like an ACRONYM.
Try this line of thinking - if they hadn't duplicated the name OBADO - how could they have entered the word DUPLICATE?
Obado it had to be to be a duplicate, and Obado is what you see. But as the entry wasn't statistically significant, it had to be annulled by being identified as an ERROR, or we would be looking to see what happened to the child named Obado Duplicate Mae.
There was an alternative. They could have shown the name we are interested in as a duplicate entry error, but boy, wouldn't THAT have raised some eyebrows....?
I'm going to leave it there.