1) Honestly, I do not think there is any question that George Bush honestly won the election. I would be stunned if any contrary evidence showed up.
2) It is time to end the tradition of challenging election results. If something like this happens once, it is a fluke. Twice, and it is a tradition -- one that would amount to a fatal cancer on our type of government. Dependable succession is one of the necessities of government, and the fact that America has long assumed that we have it does not mean that we can affort to take it for granted.
3) All this aside, serious work is needed on our method of counting votes. As it stands, electronic voting machines are a calamity waiting to happen, and people on both sides of the aisle knew this before the election. Rather than challenging the 2004 election, our country needs to take the 2000 election as spur enough to give some serious thought to vote counting -- how to make manipulation by hackers, manufacturers, vote counters, etc as impractical as possible.