Special grand jury singles out local activist in rare voter registration indictment
Tanesha Hudson, 44, has voted in the same Charlottesville location since she was 18 years old. This year, a special grand jury charged her with a felony for doing so.
Yesterday, in Charlottesville Circuit Court, a felony indictment brought by a special grand jury charging local activist Tanesha Hudson with voter registration fraud was quickly thrown out. But not before it caused Hudson to lose her job with the federal government.
“The process was the punishment,” Hudson speculates. “This wasn’t about justice; this was about revenge.”
In March this year, Hudson was the subject of a “Hometown Heroes” profile in Vinegar Hill Magazine, “Trailblazing Tanesha: How This Woman’s Voice is Reshaping Charlottesville’s Fight for Justice.” Indeed, Hudson has always been an outspoken member of the Charlottesville community (and quoted often in the DTM), and may be best known for suing the City of Charlottesville for violating her free speech rights, a…
