BZ says the “raised seal” that Savanah Guthrie felt is not the same size as a genuine HDOH seal.
It’s not a replacement, it’s a forgery.
Guthrie’s claim is meaningless. She’s the only reporter who claims to have seen one of the two alleged hard copies while everyone else in the presser was provided with a photocopy of the alleged hard copies or they saw what everyone else saw, which was the layered PDF. There’s no explanation as to why she would have direct access, but no one else. And just because she says she felt a raised seal doesn’t mean that it’s a proper, genuine embossed seal. She doesn’t say that she compared it to a known genuine birth certificate or that she compared it with DOH’s official description of the seal.
It’s not a replacement, it’s a forgery.
That is one possible conclusion. I wouldn't assume it is proven just yet. If the document shows up in court at some point, then we can challenge the size of the seal. Till then, we have no one swearing under penalty of perjury that the document we are seeing is the real Hawaiian certified document.