Georgia’s high voter turnout in the 2022 midterm elections, coupled with a favorable recent court ruling, have vindicated the state’s Election Integrity Act, which last year was harshly denounced as a tool of voter supression by President Biden and an array of iconic American brands from Coca-Cola to Major Legue Baseball.
After the passage of Georgia S.B. 202 last year, MLB announced it was moving its All-Star Game out of Atlanta, citing Biden’s claim that the law would “restrict voting access for residents of the state,” according to a statement by the league at the time. The game was moved to Denver.
Saying the decision was “the best way to demonstrate our values as a sport,” MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred declared, “Major League Baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box.”
Biden blasted the law as an “atrocity,” likening it to “Jim Crow in the […]
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