Instead of dragging this process out until Christmas, affecting our economy, the stock market and people's faith in our election process, Gore should walk away. To struggle with this has far more negative implications than conceding for four years. The butterfly ballot is archaic and subject to so many possible errors and interpretations that it should have been replaced long ago. Paper ballots where the voters make their mark in the proper square isn't much better. Both of these methods of voting should be replaced with more modern voting machines.
Voting machines are quicker and more accurate than the manual counts of the other voting methods.
If there were to be a recount, it would be just a matter of copying the totals from the machines. Voting in all states should be standardized by using only machine voting. This may be too expensive for some municipalities, but this is easily solved. We can then be rid of the present nonsense. The votes of Americans are too important to be wasted by voting methods that should be in museums.