US corporates under more pressure to fight Republican curbs on voting
29 April 2021 - 16:53
Washington — With Derek Chauvin’s guilty verdict in the books, the focus of US racial politics is shifting back to the GOP’s efforts to limit voting access in states across the country.
According to the Brennan Centre for Justice, legislators in 47 states have introduced 361 such bills, some of which have already been enacted. That means more pressure on corporations along the lines of what befell Delta, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, and other companies when Georgia instituted new strictures in late March making it more difficult to vote, especially for black people...
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