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The first is that the original so-called “long form” birth certificate — described by Hawaiian officials as a “record of live birth” — absolutely exists, located in a bound volume in a file cabinet on the first floor of the state Department of Health. Fukimo said she has personally inspected it — twice. The first time was in late October 2008, during the closing days of the presidential campaign, when the communications director for the state’s then Republican governor, Linda Lingle (who appointed Fukino) asked if she could make a public statement in response to claims then circulating on the Internet that Obama was actually born in Kenya.

http://wtpotus.wordpress.com/2011/04/10/dr-chiyome-fukino-chats-with-nbc/

Fukino says it's "written on ink". There's your first "what does 'is' mean" situation.

She's shucking and jiving and hoping it sticks ~ which it did with NBC.

We could get into her technical description of printing, writing, typed and rubberstamped ~ but I don't think we need to do that to ascertain that whatever she saw she had no idea where it came from.

She's probably like some of our own Freepers who imagine that an original "form" signed by various people is just an input document for a typist to use as a guide to completing a "real form".

Right ~ sure ~ never once imagining that the signatures aren't typed, printed, or except for her own, rubber stamped!

Having satisfied my curiosity about this person quite some time ago there's nothing gained by further belittling her ~ other than this, she might have once seen those documents 20 years ago in bound volumes in file cabinets ~ but not recently. That's why NO ONE in the DOH is telling anyone anything about the changes in the system over time ~ the slightest discussion would, of course, make Fukimo sound like she's telling lies ~ which she does anyway.

Remember, the state just approved a grant for what most of us would consider "archaeological work" ~ they are going to search through all the various record keeping systems the state owns and figure out how they might "standardize" things AND digitize all of the archival documents, or other documents required by law to be maintained for a period of time ~ and also, to find all the statutes directing the maintenance of records.

The fact that grant was authorized rather disproves the idea that Fukimo, or any other official out there knows enough about their records systems to speak authoritatively about anything.