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×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×As many as 100 CEOs and other senior business leaders from American companies attended a massive Zoom conference call on Saturday to discuss the possibility of a across the nation to , The Washington Post and Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.Action could include to lawmakers backing such laws — or even trying to constrain voting rights, according to a statement from the Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism, which participated in the call.AdvertisementThe company leaders came together just days after Senate Minority Leader (R-Ky.) — except for continuing to donate money to politicians.Executives “are not going to be cowed,” one of the call organizers, Yale School of Management Professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, told the Post. “They felt very strongly that these voting restrictions are based on a flawed premise and are dangerous.”There was “defiance” in the face of “threats that businesses should stay out of politics,” he added. “But they were there out of concern about voting restrictions not being in the public interest.” A may be issued this week that would build on one in the wake of Georgia’s restrictive new voting law, the Journal reported. AdvertisementExecutives at PepsiCo, PayPal, T. Rowe Price and Hess Corp. had already , former American Express CEO Kenneth Chenault told conference participants, according to the Journal.Executives on the call represented major airlines, retailers and manufacturers. Participants included leaders of Delta, American, United, Starbucks, Target, LinkedIn, Levi Strauss and Boston Consulting Group, American Express, AMC Entertainment, Estee Lauder, Merck — and Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank, a co-founder of Home Depot, according to the Post and Journal.One executive in Georgia noted that the state’s law was much worse than expected, noted the Post.No final steps were agreed upon. But the Post characterized the organizing as an “aggressive dialing up of corporate America’s stand against controversial voting measures nationwide.” The action also highlights the between America’s businesses and the .Corporate opposition to vote suppression measures was triggered last month after the Georgia legislature passed a law instituting ballots, sharply reduced the number of ballot drop boxes and voting hours — and even made it a crime to offer food or water to residents waiting to vote at the polls. President called the law “Jim Crow in the 21st Century.” and Delta Airlines, headquartered in Atlanta, both , particularly after consumers began in the face of voter suppression.Advertisementearlier this month moved its All-Star Game out of Atlanta to . That triggered calls from to boycott MLB — and Coca-Cola and — despite his repeated angry complaints about the so-called “cancel culture” of progressives. (Trump , ignoring his own call for a boycott.)Five bills with new voter restrictions have been passed nationwide so far. An are currently moving through legislatures, according to the nonpartisan Brennan Center for Justice. Suggest a correctionNewsletter Sign UpHuffPost's top politics stories, straight to your inbox.Successfully Subscribed!Realness delivered to your inbox

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×As many as 100 CEOs and other senior business leaders from American companies attended a massive Zoom conference call on Saturday to discuss the possibility of a across the nation to , The Washington Post and Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.Action could include to lawmakers backing such laws — or even trying to constrain voting rights, according to a statement from the Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism, which participated in the call.AdvertisementThe company leaders came together just days after Senate...

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