End of game, neat and clean. Gore concedes, Bush is elected, and the country moves on. The messier option, and the preferable one from my point of view, would be to the pursue the course explored aloud by several justices, including Kennedy, David Souter and Steven Breyer. Doing so would wipe out Gore's huge gains in Broward County, which used the most liberal standard, and create what I'd consider a fair fight. There are, as the justices noted, huge practical problems surrounding such a solution, mostly having to do with time.
Today is the deadline for picking electors who'd be insulated against congressional challenge.
The meeting of the Electoral College itself is only six days away. You might be able to finish a count by then, but perhaps not the legal skirmishing that would surround it. Then again, there may be no more than five votes for that approach. And any 5-4 ruling should be avoided, if it can be. For the court's sake.