Mr. Gore lost one hypothetical recount on the unanimity basis.
People following the wild recount on Tuesday remarked on Twitter that the one-vote victory was a stark reminder that every single vote counts.
A recount on Tuesday had the Democratic candidate leading by one vote. .
Election workers began looking for irregularities before agreeing rules about which ballots should be thrown out, but a dispute over invalidation led one audit team to walk out of the recount on Saturday afternoon, Afghan and foreign sources said.
The mistakes were quickly discovered in a first recount on Wednesday, and the total from that count changed by only eight votes after a second recount on Thursday.
Both claimed victory, and the city had the headache of a recount on its hands.
The federal lawsuit seeks to block the manual recount on constitutional grounds.
In Palm Beach County, officials prepared to begin a manual recount on Tuesday.
They will scrutinize a recount on all the machines in the district.
If the vote is close the loser may well request a recount on June 6.
And taking the opposite tack of the Democrats, they criticized the Florida Supreme Court for ordering a recount on Friday.
