'Don't let them take your voice away': Domestic violence survivors face voting challenges BY DEVNA B
Midori Davidson distinctly remembers the fear and paranoia she felt while registering to vote in 2008, several months before the presidential election.
“I was afraid to vote, but I went on ahead and registered,” she said. “Even while sitting there, I was thinking about what could happen in the back of my head.”
She had just fled to Michigan from Charlotte a few years prior to escape an abusive relationship. Her partner of nearly two years had held her at gunpoint and strangled her, and when she managed to get away from him, she drove 12 hours that night to her grandmother’s home.
As she waited for her name to be called to register to vote, her mind raced.
“What if he finds me online? I was scared, paranoid and anxious,” she said. “And I felt alone. Because for the first time I had the freedom to do something that I’m supposed to do, but I didn’t want that freedom to be snatched.”
here: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/election/article246265510.html#storylink=cpy
