Some of the states that want to host the All-Star Game for Major League Baseball, after being pulled from Atlanta over a recently approved election reform law in Georgia, have the same or even stricter voting restrictions compared to those in the controversial request is. measure.
As previously reported by Fox News, the leader of the majority, Chuck Schumer, suggested that the league should consider playing the game in New York, where the state “works to make it easier, not harder, to voice.”
In the state of New York, there are fewer early voting days than Georgia and a restriction on transferring more than $ 1 worth of food and water to voters. Georgia bans giving food and water to people online to vote. New York also needs an apology for requesting an absentee ballot, although the provision is considered relatively flexible.
Other states that have shown interest in hosting the game include Colorado, Illinois and New Jersey, all led by Democratic governors.
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The government of New Jersey, Phil Murphy, has called the voting restrictions in Georgia ‘Jim Crow 2.0’ and also wants to attract companies from the entertainment industry from the Peach State.
In New Jersey, just like New York, there are fewer early voting days than Georgia. There do not appear to be restrictions on the distribution of food and drink to individuals waiting in line to vote, and the deadline for requesting an absent ballot is more forgiving than the new Georgian law stipulates.
Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois said the state would welcome the All-Star Game safely and enthusiastically. In the state of Pritzker, the early voting period must begin at least 15 days before the election, which makes it possible for it to be shorter than Georgia.
But handing out food and drinks to voters does not appear to be restrictive, and Illinois’ timeline for requesting an absent ballot is less restrictive.
A Colorado government spokesman, Jared Polis, said the governor would burn the phones to bring the game to Denver, as reported by The Denver Post.
In Colorado, early voting rules require polling stations to be open 15 days before the election – similar to Illinois.
But ballots for absentees are received automatically, which is far less restrictive than many other states, including Georgia.
Each of these states appears to have less restrictive general guidelines than Georgia. For example, everyone uses signature matching to verify absentee ballots, while Georgia now requires voters to provide a valid form of photo identification.
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As previously reported by FOX Business, the game generates a healthy amount of economic activity for the host city, so it’s no surprise that lawmakers are jockeying to get their respective stadiums on the MLB’s radar.
The 2020 All-Star Game hosted in Los Angeles, for example, had an economic impact of $ 89 million. The game last year in Cleveland raised an estimated $ 65 million in local economic activity. The 2013 event in New York had a big local payday – estimated at $ 191.5 million.
MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred announced last week that the game would be moved from Atlanta due to the recently approved election reform law, which was signed by the Government of Georgia, Brian Kemp, late last month.
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The legislation changes the rules and processes for requesting an absentee ballot, including requiring voters to present valid forms of identification. This limits, among other things, the subjects and the early voting period for expiration.
Republicans argued that the legislation was necessary to sharpen confidence in the election process.
Georgia was one of the key states on which the Trump campaign focused, while falling prey to unproven claims of voter fraud during and after the 2020 presidential election. Biden narrowly won Georgia by about 12,000 votes.
Fox News’s Morgan Phillips and Rémy Numa contributed to this report.