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Originally Posted by strandinthewind

I know that - but Gore set the rules. He is the one that sued. .

Actually you are wrong about that. Once again from the VF article:

The automatic recount was finished on November 9, and for the Bush team the news was sobering. Though many of Florida's 67 counties "recounted" merely by looking at their previous tallies, bush's lead had shrunk from 1784 votes to 327. Gore votes, it seemed, were everywhere. Who knew how many more a manual recount would uncover? From then on, the Republican strategy was simple: stop the counting. That Saturday, Baker filed suit in federal court to stop all manual recounts-the first legal shot across the bow, though the Republicans would later accuse Gore of taking the election to court.