PLEASE don't accept this premise. The three cases are not even comparable.
The challenge in Ohio was simply a sad joke considering Bush won by a healthy 2% margin. With zero chance of success, it was undertaken to appease partisan nut cases.
Florida in 2000 was extremely close, but unlike Rossi, Gore had no reasonable basis for complaint. In the Washington case we are talking about fraudulent ballots, not butterfly ballots. Moreover Rossi is pursuing remedies in the law as it existed prior to the election, not asking the state supreme court to make up new laws and procedures which allow for additional recounts with lighter ballot requirements but only in counties that seem to favor him.
Yes, I know that. I should have been clear and made that distinction--instead it sounded as if I were lumping all of them in the same category.