Reply #3: Gore did request it...

[gully]

"On Monday night, Gore made a brief, nationally televised plea for fairness, accuracy and patience."

"That is all we have asked since Election Day: a complete count of all the votes cast in Florida," Gore said. "Not recount after recount as some have charged, but a single, full and accurate count."

http://www.detnews.com/2000/politics/0011/28/-154731.htm

And this interesting footnote;

"Gore has repeated those themes in the weeks since the election, and time is running out for him to sell his message. A new poll by CNN/USA Today/Gallup found that a growing number of Americans think the vice president should concede the election to George W. Bush -- 56 percent, compared with 46 percent last week. The poll was taken after Florida officials declared Bush the winner there Sunday night, but before Gore's televised address. An ABC-Washington Post poll, taken in the same timeframe, found six in 10 saying Gore should concede."

It seems the Green party and the Republican party want to imply that Gore never requested such a thing. :shrug: Go figure?