A Republican congresswoman has called out Major League Baseball for moving an All-Star game out of Georgia over its controversial new voter-ID law - while still requiring fans to show photo identification cards to pick up tickets.
South Carolina Republican Rep. Nancy Mace suggested the league s ticket policy was hypocritical given its opposition to the law, which will require voters to provide a state ID number on their absentee ballot. Hey @MLB, this you? Rep. Mace wrote, along with a screenshot of the Will Call policy at mlb.com.
The official policy states: Group and hospitality tickets left at Will Call will be held under one person s name, and that person will need a picture ID to pick up their tickets.
MLB moving All-Star Game from Atlanta in response to Georgia voting laws
by Ronald Blum, The Associated Press
Posted Apr 2, 2021 3:15 pm EDT
Last Updated Apr 2, 2021 at 9:08 pm EDT
Atlanta Braves field manager Tyler Lenz walks across the covered home plate at Truist Park in Atlanta. (Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File)
Atlanta lost Major League Baseball’s summer All-Star Game on Friday over the league’s objections to sweeping changes to Georgia voting laws that critics – including the CEOs of Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines and Coca-Cola – have condemned as being too restrictive.
The decision to pull the July 13 game from Atlanta’s Truist Park amounts to the first economic backlash against Georgia for the voting law that Republican Gov. Brian Kemp quickly signed into law March 25.
Major League Baseball announced Friday it was moving this summer's All-Star Game from Atlanta's Truist Park, a response to Georgia enacting a new law last month restricting voting rights. MLB had awarded the game to Atlanta in May 2019 and the game was scheduled for July 13 as part of baseball's midsummer break that includes…
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NEW YORK (AP) Atlanta lost Major League Baseball’s summer All-Star Game on Friday over the league’s objections to sweeping changes to Georgia voting laws that critics including the CEOs of Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines and Coca-Cola have condemned as being too restrictive.
The decision to pull the July 13 game from Atlanta’s Truist Park amounts to the first economic backlash against Georgia for the voting law that Republican Gov. Brian Kemp quickly signed into law March 25.
Kemp has insisted the law’s critics have mischaracterized what it does, yet GOP lawmakers adopted the changes largely in response to false claims of fraud in the 2020 elections by former President Donald Trump and his supporters. The law includes new restrictions on voting by mail and greater legislative control over how elections are run.