Was our local electoral board and court system used to target a local activist?

A former federal prosecutor thinks so. There's also evidence that a letter accusing Tanesha Hudson of felony voter registration fraud, which prompted her prosecution, was itself fraudulent.

Tanesha Hudson has been an outspoken, high profile community organizer and activist in Charlottesville for years. Here she is featured in a 2018 story in the Christian Science Monitor.

As previously reported, a rare voter registration fraud case brought against local activist Tanesha Hudson was quickly dismissed on June 30, but not before costing Hudson her government job and raising questions about why a grand jury for Charlottesville Circuit Court sought to investigate her in the first place.

“I have thoughts as to various reasons or actors with motives to bring the indictments and prosecute, but they’re too speculative,” says Hudson’s attorney, Elliot Harding. “That being said, I do think it was someone with an agenda to harm Ms. Hudson due to her outspoken advocacy and nature for speaking boldly against the powers that be.”

Harding suspects at least one …