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Report by Linda Jordan Here is what Chiyome Fukino [Former Director of Hawaii Public Health Department] had to say about how the birthers would respond to the release of Obamas birth certificate. Theyre going to question the ink on which it was written or say it was fabricated. Said Fukino. The whole thing is silly. 1
Lets start with the ink, shall we? From Hawaii Public Health Regulations
Title: Vital Statistics, Registration & Records. Chapter 8, Certificates of Vital Statistics Events, Section 1. Preparation. Certificates of vital statistics events are to be filled in by typewriter or in ink. If ink is used only permanent ink will be acceptable. All signatures are to be made with permanent ink. In all other respects, the certificates shall comply with provisions of Section 57-14, R.L.H. 1955. On April 27, 2011 Barack Obama revealed what he said was a photo copy of his original long form 1961 Certificate of Live Birth from Hawaii. (it was posted on the White House website) The signatures on this Certificate of Live Birth are required to be made in permanent ink.
(http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42519951/ns/politics-more_politics/t/ex-hawaii-official-denouncesludicrous-birther-claims/#.TwyMkqVIrKg
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of a document would also show signs that a monospaced typewriter was used, but this document has proportional spacing that is only possible with computer-generated and manufactured files. This manufactured file only becomes a document when the user goes to the File menu and clicks on Print. A computer gave birth to this file not a copy machine.
Figure 1. The Ann Dunham part of the signature of Obamas mother on the alleged long form original Certificate of Live Birth, posted on the White House website. Here its been downloaded into Adobe Illustrator.
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Figure 2. Zooming in on the top part of the D in Dunham. The pixels give the "appearence" of partial ink written penmanship. You can see the different colors of pixels, greys to blacks. This is similar to how ink signature pixels would appear when scanned.
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Figure 3. Focusing now on the start of the u next to the D in Dunham. You can see here the pixels are one solid color lacking the gradation in color that should be present if the document was scanned and if the signature was in ink. This is true for the remainder of the signature unham Obama. The lack of gradation in color of these pixels shows that this signature was created in the computer with software and is not ink.
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Figure 4. The last image focuses in on the O in Obama and part of the b. You can see there is no color change in the pixels. This was a computer created Obama. The signature of Stanley Ann Dunham Obama was forged on this document with the use of a computer.
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