{"id":29986,"date":"2021-04-16T09:28:27","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T14:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/?p=29986"},"modified":"2021-04-16T09:28:34","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T14:28:34","slug":"hundreds-of-business-leaders-celebrities-sign-petition-against-voting-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/news\/hundreds-of-business-leaders-celebrities-sign-petition-against-voting-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of business leaders, celebrities sign petition against voting laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hundreds of<\/strong><strong> corporations, business leaders, and celebrities<\/strong><strong> released a statement Wednesday in opposition to \u201cany discriminatory legislation or measures\u201d that would restrict ballot access.<\/strong><\/p><p>Hundreds of corporations, business leaders, and celebrities released a statement Wednesday in opposition to \u201cany discriminatory legislation or measures\u201d that would restrict ballot access.<\/p><p>The signatories included&nbsp;Amazon,&nbsp;BlackRock,&nbsp;and&nbsp;General Motors, as well as individuals such as Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett and music star Demi Lovato.<\/p><p>Former&nbsp;American Express&nbsp;CEO Ken Chenault and the chief executive of Merck Ken Frazier, organized the statement,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/04\/14\/business\/ceos-corporate-america-voting-rights.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to The New York Times<\/a>. The statement appeared in print advertisements Wednesday in the Times and The Washington Post.<\/p><p>The statement is the latest display of resistance to GOP-backed election bills in state legislatures across the country that civil rights advocates say will make it more difficult for minorities to vote.<\/p><p>The move comes after Georgia\u2019s Republican governor, Brian Kemp, signed into law a sweeping electoral bill that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/03\/26\/biden-condemns-gop-backed-voting-restrictions-in-georgia.html\">opponents say disproportionately hurts Black voters<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of corporations, business leaders, and celebrities released a statement  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":29994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1338],"tags":[4586],"class_list":["post-29986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-voting-laws"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29998,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29986\/revisions\/29998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}