Reply #14: Where did it say you can't look at the document? [View All]

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

I got the impression that if you were willing to go to the office where the records were kept you could personally view it, along with the other records in the volume. As their rules prohibit copying the record, a certificate of live birth is issued.

Here's the Hawaii State Department's explanation of the relative law: link

I doubt that even viewing the document in person would satisfy a true birther, however. The only proof they will accept is to have been in the delivery room when Obama was born and to have personally cut the umbilical cord.