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On Friday, Major League Baseball announced it would move the 2021 All-Star Game and the MLB draft out of Atlanta in response to Georgia’s restrictive new voting law, which was signed by Gov. Brian Kemp last week.
The league’s decision comes as corporate America begins to take notice of the Georgia bill and others like it and to push back on voter suppression around the country.
Since the law was passed, several companies, including Delta Air Lines, Coca-Cola, and Microsoft, have released statements condemning the bill, which makes it harder for Georgians to vote by mail and shifts control over election rules to the state legislature, among other changes.
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Currently Reading We ve had enough - Moderate Republicans ditched Donald Trump for Joe Biden in the party s key Bexar County strongholds. But the defections didn t help down-ballot Democrats
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President-elect Joe Biden flipped territory held by downballot Republicans in Bexar County where voters in 2016 embraced Trump and rejected Clinton in 2016 albeit by single-digit margins.Joshua Roberts /Getty ImagesShow MoreShow Less
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Republican state Rep. Steve Allison garnered roughly 4,000 more votes in his district, long a conservative stronghold, than President Donald Trump. Allison fended off a challenge from Democrat Celina Montoya and provided an upset for Democrats who had targeted the seat. President-elect Biden bested Trump in the district by about 1,500 votes.William Luther /StaffShow MoreShow Less
November 3, 2020, 12:23 AM)
Demonstrators stand across the street from the federal courthouse in Houston, Monday, Nov. 2, 2020, before a hearing in federal court involving drive-thru ballots cast in Harris County. The lawsuit was brought by conservative Texas activists, who have railed against expanded voting access in Harris County, in an effort to invalidate nearly 127,000 votes in Houston because the ballots were cast at drive-thru polling centers established during the pandemic.
Updated 12:22 a.m. CT Tuesday
A federal judge in Houston dismissed a lawsuit challenging the legality of drive-thru voting, which aimed to invalidate the 127,000 votes cast through Harris County’s 10 drive-thru voting locations.