Google representative attended meeting with GOP group pushing voting restrictions

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"@Google appears to want to have its cake and eat it too by funding a group actively trying to enact legislation it says it opposes."
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Google representative attended meeting with GOP group pushing voting restrictions
A week earlier, a top Google executive had stated Google's concern over such state laws.
axios.com
11:03 AM · May 18, 2021

https://www.axios.com/google-republican-voting-restriction-laws-7b79529b-7640-4826-8ddf-0d7db62b7b90.html

Google is among several big U.S. companies criticized in a report Monday for taking part in an April meeting of Republican state leaders that focused on efforts to pass new restrictions on voting.

Why it matters: Google has publicly said it is opposed to bills that would make voting harder, but it's also trying to engage with both Democrats and Republicans and some of that latter group are working hard to pass such bills in a number of states.

Driving the news: Popular Information reported that a Google representative, along with policy officials from Deloitte and Citigroup, were listed as participants in an April 6 meeting of a policy working group being led by the Republican State Leadership Committee's "election integrity committee."

A week earlier, top Google policy executive Kent Walker had stated Google's concern over such state laws and the company's support for a proposed national voting rights act.
The big picture: Under intense scrutiny, tech companies have been eager to show they aren't playing political favorites when it comes to Republicans and Democrats. At the same time, they have also tried to paint themselves as opposed state-level efforts to make voting harder.

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