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Just in general, a person might add a first name on a birth certificate, which could be done within the first 6 months without any penalty. Minor administrative amendments would be typos or other changes that wouldn’t affect the validity of the BC, like the parents’ residence maybe. Minor amendments which are not the fault of the registrant can be made without any fee being charged and I don’t believe the BC is noted as amended either (have to look that up). Obama was charged a fee to amend his BC in 2006 so we know the amendment was not a minor administrative amendment.

But a person wouldn’t make major amendments to a birth certificate for frivolous reasons because amending it makes the BC legally non-valid. It can’t count as prima facie evidence any more. To amend it means you essentially don’t have a valid birth certificate that you can use. The only reason I could see for a person to do that is if their BC was ALREADY invalid because it was late or incomplete, and thus they had nothing to lose.

The legally valid reasons to amend a birth certificate are already covered by the state allowing a new BC to be created. It’s a free “do-over” for situations where the original BC exposed an embarrassing situation: paternity, illegitimacy, sex change, adoption.

Regarding Obama specifically, if the HDOH has given accurate responses, I’m pretty sure the amendment was to add his birth weight, without which the HDOH can’t even print out a COLB or give a BC# because the BC is incomplete. If this is the case, Obama has never had a legally-valid BC from Hawaii. Whatever BC he used his whole life long, it wasn’t from Hawaii.

If what the HDOH told Lori Starfelt is accurate, the HDOH required the baby to be examined by a doctor within the 30 months in order to complete the medical portion of the BC.

If Obama had even been in Hawaii within the first 30 days after birth, any doctor there could have examined him, completed the BC, and all this mess would not be happening. He could have been born anywhere and as long as a HI doctor examined him within 30 days it could legally - without any snag - be claimed as an unattended birth in Hawaii.

The note of that amendment on his genuine COLB would be devastating to Obama because it would strongly suggest that he wasn’t even IN Hawaii to be seen by a doctor to complete his BC within the first 30 days.

And that would be mighty embarrassing to Abercrombie as well - since he claimed to have seen Ann and Barack with the baby in social settings. After the first month Ann and the baby were in Seattle, so if the baby wasn’t in HI within the first 30 days then he was never in Hawaii AT ALL until after BHO went to Harvard and Ann moved back to Hawaii.