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Would-be hoaxers would have long since learned from the 2004 forgery incident. This document was created with typewriter; anyone with a brain would do it this way as it would take 100X the effort to accomplish the same thing in Photoshop, and still be unsatisfactory. Look at the way the text follows the contours of the folds, the "OD" in Oduya being close together - a classic example of a typewriter skipping and having to be manually adjusted back.

Whether the document is an authentic typed document or a fake typed document is another question entirely. But the picture is unquestionable of a real piece of paper with text on it.

In other words, if this is a forgery, it is masterfully done.

With Rathergate and with the ‘certificate’ from Factcheck, these forgeries weren’t very well made. It would take some serious brains to pull off a forgery of this caliber.

There is only ONE WAY to prove this birth certificate: release the Hawaii birth certificate and all other ‘vital records’.

I agree with what your are saying, but bored teenagers don't have to use photoshop. They can get ahold of vintage typewriter. There are always some at the flea market. Figuring out what content to put in is getting easier using the internet. Finally getting all the finishing touches like printing to paper, then filling it in with the typewriter, then aging the paper can all be done pretty well with practice.

The issue is looking for the mistakes. My opinion is one mistake on this document is that the printing of the form itself (before the rest is typed in) does not accurately model or simulate vintage printing techniques. I am no expert but when I compared the image to my own vintage early 60's official document (printed in Boston, MA), the Kenyan one is a little too perfect in how the printing looks especially line to line and from edge to edge. My document fades a little to the right and gets a little darker to the bottom. But looking at the block in the lower right "I_____ Deputy Registrar .... Office this" that text is just a little too perfectly printed IMO.