[Mr Rogers]

If Obama was going to release the originals, then you are right. However, he released something that looks to me like what Hawaii issues now - not the original document, but a document with information placed into it.

It looks like a computer-generated paper form. If I ask Minnesota for my birth certificate, I now get one similar to that - an ‘official form’, but not the original documents. And I would assume it would be pretty easy for the head of a state agency, with lots of democrat workers, to produce a state document pretending to have real info in it.

That seems a more plausible route for forgery than digitally altering an image.

[tomkat]

I understand what you're saying .. however, I do believe there are legal instances where one is required to show a certified copy of one's original b.c..

I could goggle it, but it's been a really long day .. seem to recall its being required for marriages, enlistments, etc ...