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To: Diana who wrote (607)	12/6/2000 10:03:33 AM
From: Original Mad Dog	Respond to of 14610

I think by the time the U.S. Supreme Court heard the case the matter had been called to the lower court's attention and the record had been officially "supplemented." If it had been a published opinion the Court would have checked it thoroughly, but this was just somebody's affidavit, and the Court isn't gonna run their name through Yahoo People Search and call em up to ask them what they meant.

To: Diana who wrote (607)	12/6/2000 10:06:58 AM
From: mph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14610

There may not have been time to do so before the argument. Ultimately the press did it anyway. I am more concerned with th way Boies used the affidavit with the boards, frankly. He muscled them with it to insist on counting the simpled chads. OMD is right about appellate courts. They are usually confined to the record before it. And usually opponents come up with the contrary evidence/law. Everything was so expedited here that it's tough. Courts want to accept the representations of lawyers, who are officers of the court. The FSC really wanted to go with Gore here, so their uncritical acceptance of the affidavit is not particularly surprising.