Behind closed doors, aides to Georgia’s top Republicans and its leading business interests spent the final days of March hashing out new voting legislation in an effort to quell a growing outcry that GOP lawmakers were pushing measures that would severely curtail access to the polls.
Democracy Dies in Darkness
How the corporate backlash to Georgia’s new voting law is shaping other fights around the country over access to the polls
By Amy Gardner
and April 12, 2021 at 8:24 a.m. EDT