Obama refuses to authorize release of his birth certificate, Hawaii now officially votes to keep it sealed

Tweet 4/28/10: "The Hawaii legislature has now officially passed a measure that would allow state officials to legally ignore each month's dozens of repeated requests by persons or organizations seeking to see...Obama's actual birth certificate. For personal privacy reasons the certificate resides

• under government lock and key in Hawaii and, as is his right,

• Obama has never authorized its release."... LA Times Top of the Ticket blog, "Hawaii legislature OK's measure to ignore requests for disclosure of Barack Obama's birth certificate"