You said — Are you aware that Lou Dobbs reported that HI officials (of course) now claim the COLB is lost or destroyed just after or because of the switch to an electronic birth record system. I have been predicting this would happen from the beginning
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They’re not claiming it’s lost or destroyed. It’s inside a digital system that they converted to in 2001. They discarded the paper when they finished the switching over. The birth certificate is there and can be printed out and certified just like it always has been before, when they did it from paper. Now, they do it from digital...
“They discarded the paper when they finished the switching over.” You keep putting that spin on this. Prove it. Prove that the state of Hawaii destroyed the paper documents that they made electronic file copies of. ... You can’t prove it because that is not the level of specificity the article claims. What the official could just as easily have been stating was that the state no longer goes to the paper files to make a copy because they have all of them copied into electronic imagery. And that is the more plausible meaning since it is in context of the comments regarding making a quicker copy to send out/give out to those requesting a copy.