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Figure 1.1
President Obama's “short-form” certification of live birth, released by his presi-
dential campaign on June 12, 2008, available at http://www.fightthesmears.com/
articles/5/birthcertificate (accessed June 24, 2011). In the public domain.
copy of the long-form certificate of live birth, complete with original sig-
natures of Obama's mother, the attending physician, the hospital registrar,
as well as that of the Hawaii State Registrar, certifying the truthfulness of
the copy itself (see figure 1.2).
The lingering doubts over President Obama's birth certificate signal the
loss of the ways by which official documents convey their authority and
authenticity, formally and informally. This loss is a direct consequence of
the current society-wide shift in the ways administrative documents are
created, communicated, classified, and preserved. Today, almost all are
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