“People are in arms,” said Cathy Kouts Sigmon, the group’s founder. “They keep these accounts related to how they vote and how members of their family vote.”
Georgia law attorneys, who claim to have delayed or killed some restrictive bills, are targeting local companies that have backed the bill’s sponsors, including Home Depot, Coca-Cola, Delta Air Lines and UPS. An advertising campaign led by voting and civil rights groups demands that businesses use their lobbying muscles in Georgia State House to stop oppressive voting bills instead of contributing to their Republican writers.
“They spent most of Black History Month with Martin Luther King quotes, but now that the blacks’ future is in danger, they are silent,” said Nsé Ufot, CEO of one participant, the New Georgia Project. said last week. . ‘We use digital advertising, billboards, direct action at warehouses and call centers – we’re serious. This is urgent. ”
One possible sign of some success: On Sunday, the Georgia Chamber of Commerce, whose companies include members, expressed “concern and opposition” to restrictive provisions in two Republican bills.
However, the focus is increasingly on federal law. Me. Sigmon’s group is recruiting Arizonans to push their senators for the election bill. Thus are local chapters of Indivisible, a movement founded in response to the election of mr. Trump, in Georgia and Arizona.
And so do national advocacy groups. Common Cause operates telephone banks that support the account on weekday evenings, saying it has generated 700,000 text messages supporting it. “It was an incredible outpouring of support because we all know what this moment means,” said Izzy Bronstein, the group’s national campaign manager.