I wrote that “void” does NOT mean or imply that the data is suspect. Void or a moire’ pattern means only that it is a copy and not an original, in order to prevent identity theft.
Both Romney’s and Obama’s scanned images of birth certificates were for demonstration purposes only, so that the public could see the data. If any judge or a congressional committee wanted to review a hard copy of the birth vital record, they can issue a court order or a congressional subpoena for a hard copy from the state of Hawaii or the state of Michigan.
No judge or congressional committee has felt the need to request a hard copy.
States also issue Certified Letters of a Verification for their vital records. Both judges and state Secretaries of State have received them for Obama’s birth record.
For example: http://www.azcentral.com/12news/Obama-Verification.pdf
Under federal law, a U.S. Passport is primary (preferred) evidence of citizenship and identity and a birth certificate is secondary evidence.
(42 CFR 435.407)—”Types of Acceptable Documentary Evidence of Citizenship”
http://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/42/435.407
I know.
And I wrote that it DOES mean or imply that the data is suspect.
Once the document is shown to not be the original, ALL data on it is suspect, hence its being voided. It's not sufficient to say that ONLY the document itself is not original, but that the data on it is still okay.
The document, AND the information on it, cannot be relied upon.
-PJ