Georgia Furor Energizes Corporate Push Elsewhere Over Voter Laws
- Arizona CEOs condemn ‘voter suppression cloaked as reform’
- Texas bill allowing videotaping of voters draws airline’s ire
Election workers assist voters at an early voting polling location in Houston, Texas, on Oct. 13.
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U.S. companies are leveraging their influence against the next wave of Republican-backed bills that tighten state voting rules, after a more conciliatory response failed to stop a similar law last month in Georgia.
Texas and Arizona lawmakers face blowback from top corporate citizens over measures such as a provision being considered in Austin that would allow partisan poll watchers to videotape voters. Activists and Democratic politicians are pushing businesses to oppose the measures now, instead of waiting until they become law.