She carefully planned a five-hour drive to the polling place in her Tennessee hometown to vote on Election Day.
Many Americans who lined up before dawn to vote on Election Day are exhausted from constant crises, uneasy because of volatile political divisions and anxious about what will happen next.
Instead, those voting in record numbers say basic democratic foundations feel suddenly brittle: Will their vote count?
About 7 in 10 voters say they are anxious about the election, according to an AP-NORC poll last month.
“It feels a bit different, but it also feels very much the same.”A lot of people were afraid to vote on Election Day, she said.