HI got caught up in the “document automation” technology early on. It was decided that the paper copies would all be destroyed after a certifiable transfer to microfiche, then that to digital storage using what we consider primitive tech. Each stage was assured legal proof by lawyers and legislators.
Now, having had an initially unremarkable BC go thru that process of repeated duplication, transfer, and lossy compression, we are faced with an assured legal document of extreme value which cannot be proven beyond laws stating it is a sufficient copy legally constituting the original.
You’re right. There is no original which the Obama’s doctor and mother signed and which you could fondle to your satisfaction. Nonetheless, what we have is a legal, if anemic, representation of the original; insofar as it is a lossy copy which few understand the nuances of, it amounts to the original.
It’s like taking a raw 1/2-inch magnetic tape recording of Gershwin playing the piano, transferring that to vinyl and discarding the tape, then digitizing the record to 8kHz 8-bit .WAV and breaking the grooved medium, then converting to 64kbps .MP3, then burning a CD from that, then giving the CD to someone demanding the original. Then some fanatic listens to that CD, and freaks out that a metallic thump in the background, and other oddities, is proof it was made on a synthesizer, and won’t believe otherwise unless given the original tape. He is of course nuts because it is, for all practical purposes, the original - just copied badly several times - of Gershwin playing the piano. Just because the final rendering is poor doesn’t mean it isn’t proof Gershwin played the piano.
....HI got caught up in the “document automation” technology early on. It was decided that the paper copies would all be destroyed after a certifiable transfer to microfiche, then that to digital storage using what we consider primitive tech. Each stage was assured legal proof by lawyers and legislators.....
Baloney Hawaii says they kept all the originals.
It sounds like you should do what I did when JOhn Klein tried to float the same lie you’ve swallowed, that the paper docs were all destroyed when the electronic aqge arrived in HI. I picked up the phone and call the department of vital records and asked them if the paper documents from which the electronic data was compiled were destroyed when the data was transferred. The Lady I spoke with laughed and stated flatly that the state of Hawaii spends a lot of money preseving those paper documents and that in fact if a genuine request came in that required a certified copy of the original paper document, it would be fullfilled but would take two more weeks than usual since the actual vault paper would be located and photocopied then certified. Stop unwittingly repeating the lies ginned up to play apologetics for the lying bastard boy, Barry Soetoro, aka Barry Dunham.