Is this the image they released? This looks like a copy made from a microfilm record.
In this article:
there is a quote:
“On April 25, 2011, pursuant to President Obama’s request, Director Fuddy personally witnessed the copying of the original Certificate of Live Birth and attested to the authenticity of the two copies. Dr. Alvin Onaka, the State Registrar, certified the copies.
President Obama authorized Ms. Corley to pick up the documents. On April 25, 2011, Ms. Corley appeared in person at the Hawai’i State Department of Health building in Honolulu, paid the requisite fee, and was given the two certified copies, a response letter from Director Fuddy to President Obama, and a receipt for payment.”
and a statement:
“Director Fuddy made an exception for President Obama by issuing copies of the original birth certificate. The departmental policy to issue only computer-generated Certifications of Live Birth remains in effect for all birth records that have been computerized. Director Fuddy, in her capacity as Health Director, has the legal authority to approve the process by which copies of birth records are made.”
“The exception made in this case to provide President Obama with a copy of his original Certificate of Live Birth, was done according to the letter of the law,” Attorney General David Louie said.
Maybe I’m reading it wrong, but it looks to me like Director Fuddy made photocopies of the original document, which were picked up by a Ms. Corley for Obama.
If these were hard-copy photocopies, then any OCRing, layers, etc., would have been done once the photocopies arrived at the White House.
With Obama’s track record for falsifying documents I believe it is highly likely that this is a fake birth certificate. With certain original data removed.
It begs the question then, that there must be something on the original BC that Obama does not want released. Otherwise, why wait 2 1/2 years to release this faked “birth certificate?” Obviously, they want the issue to be put to rest, to further ridicule and marginalize “birthers,” and to draw attention away from the real birth certificate.