An older birth certificate is just a piece of paper with a notary seal on it. There's nothing special about them, my original could easily be faked if you found the proper cotton rag paper they used at the time and knew what the county recorder's name was.
Tell me, how would you go about faking the ledger entry at the hospital where the notary entered your birth certificate?
My birth certificate was issued about 5 years after the fact. There is no record at the hospital, as far as I know, the hospital being gone. I don't know that they kept those records save to pass to the recorder.
You may be able to find it at the county recorder, but that's electronic now. All paper was destroyed. My parents just have the family record, there's no actual certificate of live birth.
Your birth certificate was recorded the day you were born, whether or not it was issued later. The hospital can be torn down, but that notary ledger still exists unless it was destroyed by some act of God, which would be almost unimaginable because they would have kept it in a safe made for record storage. This is all US law. Our country put in place mechanisms like this to prevent non-citizens from claiming natural US birth.
All Perkins Coie provided was low-res scans of the documents. A lot of people detected anomalies and artifacts, even claiming the wrong fonts were used, but it was not really possible to settle the controversy with such poor material, and Obama didn't seem to want to provide better evidence beyond what would suffice to fuel his rhetorical attacks on questioners.
I remember the controversy about that. It was a joke even if it had been a scan of an actual cert.
It was a joke, it was a low-effort insult, and due to the massive double standards of accountability between left and right, Obama got away with it.
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