Originally only one side of the rectangle was drawn, and it was then duplicated three times and then the 4 sections were joined, but because the cross-hatching design required alignment, it was necessary to overlap the sections to achieve that. The amount of overlap was dictated by the pitch of the cross-hatching. In the case of the Obama COLB, which had a greater pitch, there was more overlap.

All of Hawaii’s borders were (amateurisly) constructed in this way, and all were out-of-square because of visual line-up in the graphics program, instead of being lined up with numeric specifications.There was also no attempt to remove the (objectionable) end lines on the border segments.

Ideally the borders should have been constructed or drawn as a
complete unit so that there would have been perfect alignment and squareness and no joining marks visible.

Now if anyone had tried to forge the Hawaii style of making borders, they would have had to copy the amateurish style mentioned above, i.e
* Make one side of a border
* Duplicate it 3 times
* Join 4 sections roughly by eye
* Leave in tell-tale signs of the joins
PLUS accidentally use the wrong pitch
PLUS accidentally use thinner lines that would break up when printed – unless they were horizontal or vertical.

The graphic artist for Hawaii actually DID do that, but the thinner
lines used in the 2007 COLB would have been an experiment that seemed like a good idea at the time, but later abandoned because of the impossibility of getting good solid black diagonal lines, especially against a coloured background.

This objectionable breaking-up of very thin diagonal lines that we see in laser printing does not occur with real printing, because the image would always be be composed of jet black solid halftone dots of various sizes – instead of multi- coloured dots that range from off-white through to light green and dark grey. This is why it pays to know how a piece of artwork will be reproduced, or typically handled afterwards with current technology such as scanners or photocopiers, JPG’s or GIF’s etc.
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I just had a thought – the border of the Obama COLB for 2007 was probably used on all other Hawaii certificates that they issued, so it will pay to track down (extracts) of marriage certificates, which should be easier to access.

Ray

This is something the Obama campaign could have put to rest EASILY over a month ago IF what you say is true. But they haven’t. I wonder why?

Look, Obama and his crew may very well be in charge of the most powerful force on earth before too long, and need to stare-down some pretty rugged opponents — and you want him and his crew to make fools of themselves by acceding the the infantile demands of trolls who don’t really believe he would be stupid enough to distribute a forged birth record on the internet.

Ray

AJ, see, this is why I didn’t offer you the link which I knew techdude had showing that the recent borders on 2008 COLB’s did not match Obama’s disproving your claim. Because I knew you would jump onto another claim just as quickly now because “someone told you” “there is another format that matches Obama’s and someone has seen it!” Lol. Hilarious.

Instead of looking at the evidence directly and asking “Why isn’t Obama just releasing his COLB and ending this nonsense?” you instead say, “Now, if we could only find some other COLBs in that format!” But all you will uncover is more forgeries from sympathetic Obama supporters like Opendna has done.

Face facts. The reason Obama doesn’t release his real COLB (like McCain has) is because either it doesn’t exist, or it doesn’t look anything like the image that has been posted at Kos. The Obama camp has the document since they scanned it, right? Why don’t they just produce it? A simple matter right?

Because Obama can’t.

But instead of just going to the source AJ, you keep on searching for that elusive COLB in that “other format”. Lol. This is something the Obama campaign could have put to rest EASILY over a month ago IF what you say is true. But they haven’t. I wonder why?

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OK – UPDATE (anyone – in any style)
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Strata – isn’t convinced it’s a forgery
Ray – has never believed it’s a forgery
Obama – knows it’s not a forgery
Hawaii Health – probably knows it’s not a forgery but cannot say
Politifact – doesn’t believe it’s a forgery
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Techdude – believes/says it is a forgery
Pamela Geller – believes/says it’s a forgery
Polarik – believes/says it’s a forgery

http://pandagon.net/index.php/site/comments/barack_obama_was_made_from_clay_and_the_saliva_of_the_gods/

We think alike, I have a request in to her.

Ray,

Thanks for doing the analysis – you confirmed my suspicions. Now, if we could only find some other COLBs in that format!

What about that journalist who wrote the article mentioned at the top of this thread? She may be able to give you a partial scan and perhaps even a short email that you can quote.

I’ll post some more of Techdude’s errors (or imaginings, or whatever they’re supposed to be called) in the next 24 hours.

Ray

Thanks for doing the analysis – you confirmed my suspicions. Now, if we could only find some other COLBs in that format!

AJStrata

After examining the Michele and KOS documents tonight, I noticed that the reason why there is more space on the right side of the KOS document is not because of any forgery, but because the (then) new 2007 document had the new wider cross-hatch border design incorporated into the COLB template and it was narrower than the previous borders and no attempt was made by the Hawaii Health to move the narrower document to a new ‘centred’ position before printing their COLB’s
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TECHDUDE’S ERROR NO.2 – re: Text out of alignment
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The reason why the KOS text is out of alignment (in relation to previous versions of the COLB’s) is not because of any forgery, but because the (then) new 2007 COLB was shorter in depth, as well as being narrower than the previous versions, and the computer operator, after having loaded tghe new border and seeing that the COLB’s code number at the very bottom of the page, was running into it, reduced all the text from it’s standard 100% size to roughly 98.7% to make it fit.

This reduction in size also accounts for the much smaller sideways shift that was seen in Techdude’s moving GIF’s. The reduction in size of the text to an irregular percentage such as 98.7 would have slightly distorted some or all of the characters and also caused microscopic lateral movement of them when the individual characters had to “jump” to make best fits into the 300 ppi matrix of the original scan for the JPEG.

The operator also altered the “Date filed” vertical depth, which was unnecessary, but that may well have been the result of an earlier attempt to alter spacing, rather than reduce the overall size the text layout.

Ray