Top American CEOs vow to block Texas attack on voting rights in unprecedented Zoom summit

More than a 100 US business leaders got together on a Zoom call to discuss their response to the controversial new voting restrictions first passed by Georgia and now set to be enacted in several states across the country.

Leaders including from companies like Delta, American, United, Starbucks, Target, LinkedIn, Levi Strauss and Boston Consulting Group were present on the call on Saturday, according to the Washington Post, whichfirst reported the call.

WaPo revealed that Kenneth Chenault, the former chief executive of American Express, and Kenneth Frazier, CEO of Merck& Co, led the discussion and asked CEOs to sign a statement “opposing what they view as discriminatory legislation on voting.”

Several avenues were discussed in the call in order to push back against the new bills, including halting funding to politicians who support the legislation and postponing investments in states that approve the measures, the Post reported.