Yes, that was the first thing I said when I saw the Daily Kos COLB. Then came the hard part: proving it. Confirmation is always a good thing. Just FYI - before I came to FR I was following and commenting on Polarik’s analysis through TexasDarlin’s blog and the Atlas Shrugs blog. IIRC there was another imaging specialist named “techdude” that Polarik blew out of the water. The details are a bit fuzzy at this point - there has been so much discussion since then.
I think I remember you. TechDude tried to pass off the 2008 COLB border as being the same as the 2006 and 2007. When I got my hands on a real 2007 COLB, and found that it resembled Obama's COLB, the jig was up.
One of the most striking pieces of information about the border on that COLB is the fact that the border was not pre-printed on the form (according to Hawaii’s Dept. of Health), which means that the design of the border was programmed into the software that prints the data on the COLB form.
Therefore, the border design can be changed only by a change to the software that prints it. Once that change is programmed and tested, all subsequently printed forms would have the same border design until the software was changed again.
It is beyond unlikely that the State of Hawaii has component-based software where the border design is selectively interchangeable resulting in multiple border designs per year.