Special Interests Unleash Coordinated Attacks on Election Integrity

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Texas Scorecard by Erin Anderson April 8, 2021

Democrats and their allies on the left are working with big corporations to demonize Republican-priority voting legislation.

A coordinated attack against election integrity is underway in Texas and across the country, led by Democrats and supported by the same special interests who participated in last year’s secretive “shadow campaign” to influence the 2020 election against President Donald Trump.

This time, big corporations have been pushed to the forefront of the Democrat-led alliance of left-wing and “racial justice” activists, labor unions, the business lobby, and anti-Trump Republicans, who are working openly to promote their interests by demonizing GOP-priority voting legislation.

In recent days, dozens of corporate CEOs have joined Democrat politicians in publicly condemning election integrity legislation, mischaracterizing election reforms as “voter suppression.”

Many of these corporations were active in the 2020 shadow campaign through membership in organizations like the Business Roundtable and Civic Alliance. Both groups have issued public statements on protecting voting rights that their members have echoed.

Both groups also issued statements supporting racial equity, diversity, and inclusion in the wake of last summer’s destructive protests by Black Lives Matter and other racial justice activists.

But the anti-election integrity alliance says public statements aren’t enough. Employing a strategy called “activist stewardship,” Democrats’ union-activist allies have organized state treasurers and public pension fund managers to leverage their power as shareholders to coerce more action from corporations.

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