Essential Politics: In the voting rights debate, Georgia gets a jolt from big business

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Coke or Pepsi? In Georgia, it depends on your politics as a new voting law spotlights the role of corporations.

This is the April 7, 2021, edition of the Essential Politics newsletter. Like what you’re reading?Over the past six months, the state has played a starring role in the 2020 presidential contest, the battle for control of the Senate and, now, a debate over voting access in future elections.

Georgia lawmakers passed, and the Republican governor quickly signed, a law giving themselves greater control over managing local elections, placing new requirements on absentee and early voting and barring advocacy groups from providing water or other refreshments to voters facing long waits. State Republicans argue that they’re simply safeguarding voting integrity, though federal and state officials have repeatedly assured the publicThen came the backlash: Voting rights advocates rallied.

The law was already a big story, a clear consequence of Republicans’ false claims that Democrats stole the White House and the Senate. But corporate activism has supercharged the issue — this week, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky denounced businesses for “behaving like a woke parallel government.

 

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