Karilee H. Shames, a plaintiff in the class action lawsuit who recently moved to Palm Beach County, said she was amazed by what she saw in Florida on Election Day.
"Never have I seen anything going on around an election like [what I saw in Florida]," she said.
Shames said that some people, when they called the local elections office so as to ascertain their polling place, were asked whether they were Republican or Democrat.
"When [the caller] said 'Democrat,' [he was] put on hold and nobody ever came back," she said.
Shamas insists that, while there were many irregularities in the voting, the plaintiffs are trying to stick to nonpartisan issues.
"This is not a partisan issue. [This is] a civil rights issue," she said. "It's a matter of 20,000 to 30,000 people in one county feeling that their votes were not properly expressed."
The Florida Supreme Court yesterday denied Secretary of State Katherine Harris' request to stop manual recounts in progress in several counties. Bush had joined the lawsuit early yesterday.
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