[PA-RIVER]

My guess, the forger was proud of his work and was playing with it up to the night before they called for it, ready to add any changes he thought might be needed.

Probably an amateur who had no idea it could be picked apart so quickly like this.

It's been sold to us as a genuine copy of an original document. Addition or not, it's a deception. Its fraud.

[DiogenesLamp]

My guess, the forger was proud of his work and was playing with it up to the night before they called for it, ready to add any changes he thought might be needed.

There is nothing in it to be proud about. Textual font mismatches, halos around the letters, differing bit depths and resolutions between text characters, and layers?

It is obviously not the work of an expert, but it makes perfect sense (to me at least) that it is easily the quality of work you might expect of a state government bureaucrat.

Probably an amateur who had no idea it could be picked apart so quickly like this.

Or a not particularly picky professional, such as might make these sort of documents routinely as part of their job. :)

It's been sold to us as a genuine copy of an original document. Addition or not, it's a deception. Its fraud.

I agree, but I suggest that it is a "legal" fraud. There are a 120,000 of these sorts of fraud documents produced every year. In this particular case, I think it was created by the nullification or Amendment of a previous adoption.