I say this as a friendly well-intentioned warning:
The Birther movement is grossly ignorant of electronic document processing technology and management attitudes in use during the period the BC was most likely digitized and subsequently destroyed.
Don’t attack me, hear me out or lose the fight.
In the 80s, document automation was a corporate fad. Bureaucracies were smitten with converting warehouses of paper to computer files. Enormous sums were spent doing so, confidently destroying paper records by the truckload.
One problem: the technology was there like Space Invaders was a game - barely. Far from the high res 300+ dpi whole page scans of today, those systems went thru extreme contortions to fit whole legal pages in today-unbelievably small space. Guided by bizarre legalistic rules determining what pixels were important, this extremely lossy compression - and their decades-later reconstruction in far superior technologies - results in strange visual artifacts which the ignorant & suspicious interpret as proof of conspiracy.
I know many will attack, insult, and demean me for saying this. What do they know but cheap high-res scanners and cheaper terabyte-scale storage? I was there when what I describe was newsworthy and lauded as futuristic breakthroughs fetching many millions of dollars when that was a LOT of money. I’m trying to make a helpful point, warning of the enemy’s capabilities to eviscerate opponents a way our advocates think absurd. When the Obama’s minions get their act together, the “photoshop conspiracy” crowd will look very, very stupid if they don’t get a realistic grip on mid-80s document processing.
There's that word "likely."
It was my understanding that Hawaiian long-form birth certificates were stored on microfilm. They were not digitized.
My analysis has never depended on anything computer related. The security paper that the HDOH used in May 2011 is different than the security paper on the White House image. And the HI state registrar was asked point-blank to verify that the White House image is a “true and accurate representation of the original record on file”. He would not, nor would he verify the birth facts submitted on the actual verification application. He was legally required to verify upon request any submitted claims that he could verify as true. He wouldn’t verify any of the facts or the genuineness of the White House image. We’ve got our legal answer, and it doesn’t take any computer skill to see that answer for what it is.
Also, what makes you think that the paper records were destroyed after digitizing? If you’ve followed this issue at all you know that the HI folks were all talking about the BC being in a bound volume with all the other BC’s. They did not destroy the paper records even if they digitized them.
And if you believe the excuses that Deputy AG Jill Nagamine gave for not allowing Duncan Sunahara to see a certified copy of his sister’s original BC, they must not have digitized anything because they couldn’t give a certified copy without causing gross damage to those fragile paper birth certificates in that bound volume. If they digitized those records then the condition of the paper records was no issue whatsoever. And actually we know that this was just an excuse on Nagamine’s part because they had not only the paper documents but master and work copies of the microfilmed BC images.
So they have paper copies, microfilm masters and multiple copies, and (from what they say on their website about still having to create records from old documents) digital files of all the BC’s. There is no reason for them to not allow Duncan to see his sister’s long-form, and they are making excuses. Typical of the lying scummery I’ve seen first-hand from the officials in Hawaii.