Activists are calling for boycotts of companies headquartered in Georgia to pressure them to do more to reverse the new restrictions.
POLITICS DIDN’T STOP Georgia from enacting a sweeping election law making it harder for people to vote. But voting right advocates are banking on corporate America to undo the dramatic new restrictions, including a provision that makes it illegal to pass out snacks and water to people waiting hours in line to cast ballots.
After Democrats scored pivotal victories in the long-red state – taking Georgia in the presidential race and picking up two critical seats in the U.S. Senate – the GOP-run state legislature responded quickly, passing a package that has the effect of putting up barriers for Black communities to vote. Gov. Brian Kemp, also a Republican, signed the measure the same day.
Now, activists are calling for boycotts of companies headquartered in Georgia to pressure them to do more to reverse the restrictions. President Joe Biden, who last week called the law “un-American” and a thinly disguised effort to suppress the Black vote, took a step further Wednesday night, telling ESPN he would “strongly support” moving Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game out of Atlanta if things don’t change. Continue reading.
