Google, Deloitte, and Citigroup quietly collaborate with GOP group pushing voter suppression

[CousinIT]

https://popular.info/p/google-deloitte-and-citigroup-quietly

Several large corporations that have recently issued public statements supporting voting rights — including Google, Deloitte, and Citigroup — are also funding and collaborating with a top Republican group advocating for new voter suppression laws. Internal documents obtained by Popular Information and Documented reveal the corporations participated in a "policy working group" on "election integrity" with the Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC), a party organization that is actively supporting new voter suppression bills. Participation in the roundtable required a minimum annual contribution of $15,000 to the RSLC.

For example, on March 31, Google's SVP for Global Affairs, Kent Walker tweeted that the company is "concerned about efforts to restrict voting at a local level" and "strongly support[s] the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act."

A week later, Google's State Policy Manager, Joe Dooley, was listed as a participant in a private RSLC policy working group led by the organization's "Election Integrity Committee." The April 6 presentation, obtained by Popular Information and Documented, details an array of proposals to suppress voting, including purging of voting lists, more stringent voter ID requirements, and targeting of voting centers. The RSLC also opposes any federal action to protect voting rights. The meeting was run by Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill (R), who has embraced Trump's lies and conspiracies about election fraud.

The RSLC presentation deck makes clear that the purpose of restricting voting under the guise of "election integrity" is to elect more Republicans. One slide asserts that Republican control of state legislatures is the "last line of defense for the Republican Party." The RSLC argues that Republicans must act "now" because "2022 is just over the horizon — election integrity is likely to have a major impact."



Another slide in the presentation is titled, "Why It Matters: The Democrats Smell Blood." It warns that "if Democrats win key state races in 2021 and 2022, they'll have the votes they need to pass their radical agenda."

[Blue Owl]

1. Deloitte -- sounds a bit like Toilette

[tableturner]

2. K and R......

[Bettie]

3. The super rich

are worried that they might have to pay taxes.

[crickets]

4. It doesn't matter what they say. Watch what they do. nt

[summer_in_TX]

8. Double-faced liars!

[Lonestarblue]

5. Who has the radical agenda?

Is it Democrats who are talking about bringing manufacturing jobs back to the US with alternative energy manufacturing or believing that all American deserve affordable healthcare? Perhaps it’s radical to believe in improving cybersecurity or fixing the broken and failing bridges that exiat throughout the US?

Or actually is the radical plan the one being pushed by Republicans to end democratic rule and install themselves as the permanent federal government?

Time to call these companies out for supporting the end of democracy.

[OldBaldy1701E]

10. Call all you want

Until we stop giving them money, nothing is going to change. They will have the resources to keep on doing this crap and we will just keep on filling their wallets. Of course, if that green piece of paper wasn't the equivalent of a deity to most of the country, they would not have the means to keep on fighting for an oligarchy. But, I digress...

[uponit7771]

6. WOW .. wtf people ?!

[IsItJustMe]

7. Two faced

[calimary]

9. Needs to be said, read, and SPREAD!