[Drumbo]

"You get a state-sealed computer laser printout just like this one. I had to request a copy of my birth certificate from Virginia a couple of years ago, and the document I received was not unlike this one."

Be careful what you assume and pass as fact. I requested (for a fee) my Birth Certificate from the Commonwealth of Virginia two years ago. I received not a modern computer print out, but a certified copy of the microfilmed original with the embossed seal and a signature verifying that this was a certified copy. It looks like a photo negative - all black with white type (obviously done on a typewriter) and is impossible to photocopy.

BTW, where is the embossed State seal on Obamma's? Surely you don't mean that grainy pixelated B&W image at the top center?

[Moose4]

Really? I went to the records office in Richmond to get mine, and they gave me a laser printout sort of like Obama’s. Hmm. Maybe it’s a different request and a different fee. Or maybe mine from 1966 wasn’t reproducible.

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