Thread by @JuddLegum

1. Georgia's Governor just signed a law that:

- restricts drop boxes

- curtails early voting for runoffs

- criminalizes giving water to people waiting in line to vote

- imposes new ID requirements for absentee ballots

Prominent corporations helped make this possible.

2. The following corporations backed the sponsors of Georgia's voter suppression legislation AND never spoke out in opposition (2018-present)

@ATT (100K)
@CVSHealth (43K)
@Delta (42K)
@comcast (40K)
@SouthernCompany (39K)
@CocaCola (35K)
@UPS (35K)
@HomeDepot (34K)

3. Corporations that backed the sponsors of Georgia's voter suppression legislation AND never spoke out in opposition (2018-present) (con't)

@UnitedHealthGrp (28K)
@SunTrust (25K)
@Walmart (23K)
@Pfizer (17K)
@Allstate (17K)
@AnthemBCBS (17K)
@AnheuserBusch (17K)
@Verizon (15K)

4. Corporations that backed the sponsors of Georgia's voter suppression legislation AND never spoke out in opposition (2018-present) (con't)

@Walgreens (10K)
@TMobile (8K)
@aflac (7K)
@Lyft (6K)

5. This isn't the end. The campaign by @BlackVotersMtr, @NewGAProject, @Georgia_NAACP had an impact. Some of the worst provisions were dropped.

There are similar bills being introduced across the country

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@BlackVotersMtr @NewGAProject @Georgia_NAACP Some of the same companies are backing politicians pushing similar voting restrictions in

ARIZONA: popular.info/p/major-corpor…

FLORIDA: popular.info/p/corporate-ba…

UPDATE: The police arrested a member of the Georgia legislature for knocking on the Governor's door while he signed a voter suppression bill into law:

ajc.com/politics/georg…

There was ABSOLUTELY NO EVIDENCE OF FRAUD IN GEORGIA'S ELECTIONS.

But these dudes decided to make it more difficult to vote anyway.

https://twitter.com/GovKemp/status/1375223667504914436