What other reason does HRS 338-14.3 allow for him to fail to verify Obama’s gender, date of birth, city of birth, island of birth, mother’s name, and father’s name?
Explain your legal reasoning.
I really don’t follow your reasoning. I think you are reading too much into this.
Bennett asked DOH to explicitly verify twelve items (request letter dated March 30), in addition to what he listed on his verification request. Onaka responded with a page verifying the twelve items Bennett requested, and the statement, “...I verify that the information in the copy of the Certificate of Live Birth for Mr. Obama that you attached with your request matches the original record in our files.” Onaka included the wording, “I certify that the information contained in the vital record on file with the Department of Health was used to verify the facts of the vital event.”
My reading on this is that Onaka did indeed verify that the birth facts presented on the COLB copy match what is on file in Hawaii. However, Onaka did not confirm that the COLB attached to Bennett’s request was a true and correct copy, as Bennett requested. I can think of a couple of possible reasons for this:
1. Onaka felt that the image was insufficiently like the copy on record to be described as “true and correct.” This could be due to distortions in printing, color changes, etc.
2. There is something factually different (amendment stamp?) about the copy Bennett supplied.