Big Corporations Are Pro-Voting Rights In A Blow To GOP.

April 12, 2021 Glen Turpening

Large Corporations are voicing their grave concerns over voter right restrictions with the threat of cutting off the gravy train. (Washington Post)

The Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and representatives of major corporations, including Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines, worked directly with legislative leaders and the office of Gov. Brian Kemp (R) to exclude some of the more controversial proposals, according to people familiar with the discussions, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations. Republicans agreed to drop, for instance, language barring most Georgians from voting by mail and curtailing early voting on weekends. They even expanded early-voting hours in the final bill. The hope of Republicans involved, according to a half-dozen people familiar with the process, was to pull off a delicate political balancing act: satisfying voters who believe former president Donald Trump’s false claims that he lost the 2020 election because of rampant fraud — while heading off accusations of voter suppression from the left.

By Amy Gardner and Mike DeBonis

The American experiment relies on the ability of people to cast a vote. This nation has such a fraught history with voting rights and must never return to the era of voting restrictions that stop people of color from participating in our democracy. Sadly, that is exactly what some factions of the GOP are seeking to do with the voter suppression bills being proposed in state houses across America. Voting rights are human rights.