The Original

This I should have known - and should be more widely known. Via CNN president Jon Klein:

In 2001 - the state of Hawaii Health Department went paperless. Paper documents were discarded. The official record of Obama's birth is now an official ELECTRONIC record Janice Okubo, spokeswoman for the Health Department told the Honolulu Star Bulletin, "At that time, all information for births from 1908 (on) was put into electronic files for consistent reporting," she said.

I apologize for not knowing this. Jon is right. It ends the matter. Anyone still asking is potty. But then so is the current GOP. As for Dobbs ...