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   From: kamala-harris-the-slut@latimes.com   
      
   Coca-Cola has released a statement condemning Georgia’s new   
   voting legislation, but the company requires valid ID to be   
   admitted to its annual meeting of shareholders.   
      
   “At the entrance to the meeting, we will verify your   
   registration and request to see your admission ticket and a   
   valid form of photo identification, such as a driver’s license   
   or passport,” the company wrote in reference to its 2020 annual   
   meeting of shareholders, held before the coronavirus pandemic.   
      
   Georgia’s new voting law requires a drivers’ license or state ID   
   number be listed to submit an absentee ballot to vote, among   
   other new reforms. The state already required ID to vote in   
   person. It had previously relied on signature matching to verify   
   ballots.   
      
   Coca-Cola is based in Atlanta. This week, the beverage company,   
   among other Georgia-based companies, issued statements   
   condemning the new legislation after threats of boycott.   
      
   Coca-Cola Chairman and CEO James Quincey issued a statement   
   Wednesday night saying the company is "disappointed in the   
   outcome of the Georgia voting legislation."   
      
   "Voting is a foundational right in America, and we have long   
   championed efforts to make it easier to vote," Quincey said. "We   
   want to?be crystal clear and state unambiguously?that?we are   
   disappointed in the outcome of the Georgia voting legislation.   
   Throughout Georgia’s legislative session, we?provided feedback   
   to?members of both?legislative   
   chambers?and?political?parties,?opposing measures in the bills   
   that would diminish or deter access to voting."   
      
   Quincey added that Coca-Cola's focus "is now on supporting   
   federal legislation that protects voting access and addresses   
   voter suppression across the country."   
      
   MLB is also bowing to the pressure from the left.   
      
   "Major League Baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for   
   all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box,"   
   league commissioner Rob Manfred said announcing the decision to   
   pull this year’s All-Star Game out of the Peach State Friday. He   
   said protesting Georgia’s new GOP-backed election integrity law   
   was "the best way to demonstrate our values as a sport."   
      
   The House recently passed H.R. 1, the For the People Act,   
   election reform favored by Democrats and panned by Republicans.   
      
   The legislation would create automatic voter registration across   
   the country and ensure those who complete felony sentences have   
   their voting rights restored. The bill will also expand early   
   voting and enhance absentee voting by simplifying voting by mail.   
      
   Coca-Cola spinoff Fanta was invented inside Nazi Germany during   
   World War II and "became a point of nationalistic pride,"   
   according to "God, Country and Coca-Cola" by Mark Pendergrast.   
      
   Fox News' Michael Ruiz contributed to this article.   
      
   https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/coca-cola-required-id-in-   
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