CEOs ramp up fight against restrictive voting bills

More than 100 CEOs and corporate leaders met online over the weekend to discuss ways to fight restrictive voting measures and bills, led at times by Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier and Kenneth Chenault, former chief executive of American Express, who last month released a letter from 72 Black business executives that made a similar call to action. Mike Ward of the Civic Alliance said the upshot was that executives on the Saturday call wanted to “lean into this, not lean away from this.”