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MLB All-Star Game yanked from Georgia over voting law


MLB All-Star Game yanked from Georgia over voting law
By RONALD BLUMApril 3, 2021 GMT
NEW YORK (AP) Atlanta lost Major League Baseball’s summer All-Star Game on Friday over the league’s objections to sweeping changes to Georgia voting laws that critics including the CEOs of Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines and Coca-Cola have condemned as being too restrictive.
The decision to pull the July 13 game from Atlanta’s Truist Park amounts to the first economic backlash against Georgia for the voting law that Republican Gov. Brian Kemp quickly signed into law March 25.
Kemp has insisted the law’s critics have mischaracterized what it does, yet GOP lawmakers adopted the changes largely in response to false claims of fraud in the 2020 elections by former President Donald Trump and his supporters. The law includes new restrictions on voting by mail and greater legislative control over how elections are run. ....

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