You'll notice I didn't claim anything about which state issued the BC, just that the home state appears to have registered the births. We can tell this in the first column on page 43 because it says how many total births occurred in State and how many occurred in the county of residence. On page 241 of the report, Hawaii claims 17,616 total births while on page 43, only 17,578, and only 17,508 in county. The remainder is either out of county or out of state.
On the table listing different races, again the total number of 17,616 is listed and that 366 born out of state footnotes means that it's part of Hawaii's total number of births. The state had to have been registering these births, else there could be massive duplications of birth reports between states.
The bottom line is that we see a strong clue that Obama could have been born out of state, but registered in Hawaii, perhaps eligible to receive a birth certificate there. Since we haven't seen an original birth certificate, we don't know what place of birth is listed.
The part that is most unknown is about foreign births, since these tables only include births within the United States. But I found another source that says for children born en route (on a ship or airplane), that a child would be registered where they arrive and that the type of conveyance would be marked on the birth certificate. Theoretically a baby could be born in another country, but reported to have been born on the plane or on the ship en route, and thus receive a Hawaii birth certificate. The en route designation might not appear on a COLB, but it might show up on Obama's original birth certificate ... which easily explains why he wants NO ONE to see it.
Thanks for the explantion. I’ll have to go think about it for awhile.