Yep. There are several attorneys right here on FR who have pointed out Hawaii's lax laws repeatedly. This is the #1 reason IMO why Hawaii seems to be going to bat for Obama and doing some of the illegal stuff they have been doing lately. They are not covering up for Obama, they are covering up their own failures.
And it is this reason as well why some so-called conservative freepers simply refuse to understand the illegibility issue at its core, because they simply cannot grasp what Hawaii has done regarding its laws, so they refuse to believe it.
There was an attorney at one time who explained that Hawaii did this to get more taxpaying Hawaiians, more taxpayers = more social programs or something to that effect. Now they have to cover their tracks because they've screwed up the constitution and allowed illegals a way in through the back door into the Oval Office. Obama, being the consummate con-artist that he is, knew this and totally used the system to his advantage.
I agree with you about Hawaii covering up more than their roll in the Obama mess. I’ve seen some references (can’t find them at the moment - I did try) to a flood of immigration coming in through Hawaii using the methods Hawaii permits when a person wants to obtain a birth certificate.
It might be interesting to look at the growth of population in Hawaii from year to year and compare it to the growth in other states. Then it would be interesting to see how many people moved there from another state in the U.S. (if those figures were tracked) and compare those figures. The U.S. census figures for Hawaii every ten years would be at least something one could find, though by themselves wouldn’t be too useful.
Given the nature of the government there, it is not too much of a stretch to think that a group of people may have made a pretty penny running an operation that allowed people to circumvent the normal immigration procedures. This is all speculation of course, but I will try to find the references to the immigration racket in Hawaii and post it if I am successful.