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The National Black Justice Coalition is pushing the PGA Tour to pull out of the upcoming Masters Tournament in Georgia to protest a new law in the state that significantly restricts voting rights, CNN reports.
Critics of the law, signed by Governor Brian Kemp last week, have characterized it as a way to limit civic participation from Black residents who helped turn the state blue, bolstering Biden's victory and giving Democrats the final two senators needed to control both houses of Congress.
The new law imposes new voter identification requirements for absentee ballots, empowers state officials to take over local elections boards, limits the use of ballot drop boxes and makes it a crime to approach voters in line to give them food and water. Voting rights groups have said the law would target the Black residents and other voters of color in the state.
The National Black Justice Coalition said professional golfers should refuse to play in Georgia until the law is repealed.
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