Bank of America CEO calls for bipartisan push to study restrictive voting laws

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: CNN

Bank of America's chief executive is the latest business leader to speak out about restrictive voting legislation in states such as Georgia and Texas, calling for a federal bipartisan commission to investigate the measures.

"The right to vote should be distributed in the broadest sense and anything that goes against that shouldn't be tolerated," said CEO Brian Moynihan in an interview with CNN's Poppy Harlow on Friday.

The comments come just two days after more than 100 executives from major companies took out a full page ad in The New York Times defending the right to vote for all and opposing "any discriminatory legislation" that infringes on that right.

Moynihan acknowledged that states have the right to set their own voting standards, but he argued that businesses should speak out when they see something they feel is unjust.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/bank-of-america-ceo-calls-for-bipartisan-push-to-study-restrictive-voting-laws/ar-BB1fIZ8v

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Well intended idea which will go nowhere. If anything the GOP wants more restrictive laws on voting.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Inviting the vote suppression party is like asking mass-murderers what to do about gun control

Face it. Business people don't have a clue about politics.

[hibbing]

7. What time are you coming for dinner Dr. Lechter? n/t

[Raven123]

2. Voters don't need a commission to tell them what they experience

[Comfortably_Numb]

3. I admire your positivity.. "well intended."

I’m going with “sound and fury signifying nothing.”

[Midnight Writer]

4. PR. (yawn)

[Tiger8]

5. You win the Internet n/t

[abqtommy]

6. Just reading the op headline I was expecting to find The Onion as the source. Oh well,

maybe next time!

[BumRushDaShow]

8. "Moynihan acknowledged that states have the right to set their own voting standards"

No they don't. There are 4 Constitutional Amendments that specifically deal with "voting", so there are certain limits as to what they can and cannot do - and this notably includes what happens with federal elections, which are explicitly spelled out in the Constitution. There are also multiple federal laws that govern elections as well including the VRA and HAVA.

[summer_in_TX]

9. The statements by numerous CEOs representing businesses large

and small are actually more than just PR.

They are part of a major pushback strategy for GOP legislatures in states where Dems don't stand a chance to block their agenda. Republican legislators have introduced numerous bills to make it more expensive and harder to register to vote, to go vote, or to help someone else go vote.

In the 2019 Texas legislative session it looked like the "Bathroom Bill" would be enacted until the Texas business community spoke up.

In Texas, the LWV of Texas, Texas LULAC, and the NAACP of Texas united to call for businesses to step up to help protect voting rights.The program is called "Democracy is Good for Business" which has pro-voting rights statements by Google, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Comcast, Michael Dell, American Airlines, Cisco, Facebook, and other smaller businesses.

The UIL and NCAA have vowed not to bring any playoffs to states that do not allow transgender students to play.

Georgia got their horrible bill through and signed into law in one day. Texas's Lege doesn't work that way.

It's a high stakes national strategy with no guarantee it will work – but since grassroots activism was unlikely to win in this instance as radicalized as the GOP has become, I for one am thankful that so many businesses are making a stand for the people's right to vote.

[Downtown Hound]

10. Bank of America CEO calls for biggest waste of time ever.

There, fixed the title.

[gab13by13]

11. Corporations write letters in the newspaper,

condemning voter suppression and with the same pen write checks to Republicans suppressing the vote.

I have yet to see corporations promising not to fund politicians who are suppressing the vote.

[MissMillie]

12. What, exactly, are they going to study? Voter fraud?

There have been multiple, very expensive studies in the last 2 decades--all of which have verified that no fraud (that would affect election results) exists.

These new rules are a racists "solution" to a problem that does not exist.