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Corporate giants call on Congress to pass voting rights measure
By Karl Evers-Hillstrom - 07/14/21 02:24 PM
More than 150 corporate giants, including Target, PepsiCo and Google, urged Congress to strengthen voting rights for minority voters in a letter released Wednesday.
The companies, which collectively employ 4 million U.S. workers, urged Congress to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. The bill is named after civil rights leader and former Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), who died last year.
The legislation would require parts of the U.S. with a history of discrimination to get federal approval to change voting laws, similar to a provision in the 1965 Voting Rights Act that the Supreme Court struck down in 2013
“Despite decades of progress, impediments to exercising the right to vote persist in many states, especially for communities of color,” the group wrote in a letter to members of Congress. “We need federal protections to safeguard this fundamental right for all Americans.”
The coalition, dubbed Business for Voting Rights, wrote that states used the Supreme Court to institute voter ID requirements, reduce early voting times and eliminate same-day registration, measures that “disproportionately affected communities of color.”