Big corporations that claim to support voting rights are still funding right-wing state AGs

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Big corporations that claim to support voting rights are still funding right-wing state AGs
Coke, GM, AT&T pay "lip service" to voting rights while funding GOP vote-suppression forces, says watchdog group

By IGOR DERYSH
PUBLISHED OCTOBER 19, 2021 6:00AM


(Salon) Major corporations that have publicly touted their support for voting rights amid the nationwide Republican crackdown on ballot access are still funding many Republican state attorneys general who are working to scuttle federal voting rights legislation.

Leaders of companies like General Motors, Coca-Cola and Home Depot denounced the Republican onslaught of voting restrictions in states like Georgia earlier this year. But those companies and others have kept on funding Republican attorneys general who urged congressional leaders to block the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, a proposed law that would restore a section of the Voting Rights Act — recently gutted by the Supreme Court — requiring states with a history of racial discrimination to pre-clear new voting changes with the Justice Department.

That also came after an arm of the Republican Attorneys General Association sent robocalls on Jan. 5 of this year, urging supporters to come to Washington to "fight" Congress in support of former President Donald Trump's election lies. The following day, of course, pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol. The group also received $150,000 from a major Republican donor who helped fund the "Stop the Steal" rally that preceded the riot.

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita led 22 other Republican attorneys general last month in condemning the John Lewis Voting Rights bill, claiming it "would allow the United States Department of Justice to usurp the authority states rightly possess over their own elections, essentially federalizing the election system." ...........(more)

https://www.salon.com/2021/10/19/big-corporations-that-claim-to-support-voting-rights-are-still-funding-right-wing-state-ags/

[CrispyQ]

1. Why shouldn't the federal government federalize federal elections?

I live in Colorado, the gold standard for voting. It's not right, nor is it democratic, that it's easier to vote in Colorado than it is in just about every other state in the Union.

As for corporations, it's hard to even find a "Contact Us" page on their websites, much less if they even bother to read them. Plus if you leave one corporation for one reason, you'll find a new, just-as-awful reason to leave the next one.