Someone suggested that Gore's first reaction to the U.S. Supreme Court decision in December 2000 should have been to file civil charges against David Boies for providing incompetent legal counsel, and then seek to have his license to practice law rescinded. The Gore case was effectively a lost cause once they decided to order recounts with different counting standards only in certain counties -- this was such a blatant violation of U.S. election law that the U.S. Supreme Court had no choice but to determine that it was not a valid recount process.
Actually it was the counties that chose different standards. Credit where credit is due. There were Democrat controlled boards in all the contested counties, but not all were equally willing to cheat for Gore. A couple tried, at least initially, to follow Florida law and their own precedents, and do a fair recount. That, of course, didn't manufacture appreciable numbers of Gore votes.
One of the highlights of the whole fiasco was the Gore campaign suing a Democrat board in midcount -- after the ballot patterns had been analyzed -- to force it to shift to a more subjective standard. The DUmmies forget that part -- Gore suing honest Democrats to force them to cheat.