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 viewing on the White House website on April 27, 2011. The Department of Health of the State of Hawaii cites on its official website to the White House posting of the President’s birth certificate as the document that the state certified and delivered.

It should be noted that both documents from the State of Hawaii, that is, the so-called “short-form” Certification of Live Birth [the “COLB”], or the certified copy of the longer form certificate of live birth, according to the official declarations of officers of the State of Hawaii, have been officially certified by the state, and are therefore “self-authenticated documents” under Federal Rules of Evidence, as well as “public records” of that state. Under the United States Constitution, a public record of a state is required to be given “full faith and credit” by all other states in the country. Even if a state were to require its election officials for the first time ever to receive a “birth certificate” as a requirement for a federal candidate’s ballot placement, a document certified by another state, such as a “short form” birth certificate, or the certified long form, would be required to be accepted by all states under the “full faith and credit” clause of the United States Constitution.

With respect to any actual contrary evidence, it may be noted briefly that there appear to be no legitimate, official documentary records, or copies of such records, which have been produced or forwarded contradicting the prima facie record of President Obama’s birth in Hawaii, as provided in the official certification (or certificate) of live birth released by the Obama campaign in 2008 and attested to by Hawaii Department of Health officials, or the certified copy of the “long form” birth certificate publicly shown and released on April 27, 2011. No verified, official record of birth from any other jurisdiction or country has been produced; no contradictory health record or hospital record has been forwarded; and no official record of travel (such as a passport record) appears to exist placing President Obama’s mother in a foreign country at the time of the President’s birth. A federal court has found with respect to birth records that “a record of birth contemporaneously made by governmental authority in official records would be almost conclusive evidence of birth.” As expressly verified by Hawaiian officials, and as officially Rh