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Baseball moves its All-Star Game out of Georgia to protest voting law

Baseball moves its All-Star Game out of Georgia to protest voting law

AMY TENNERY MAJOR League Baseball Commissioner Robert Manfred has ordered the sport to relocate its 2021 All-Star Game and amateur player draft out of Atlanta in protest over Georgia's new voting restrictions. The removal of the lucrative All-Star Game marks one of the most significant and high-profile gestures after Georgia last week strengthened identification requirements for absentee ballots, shortened early voting periods for runoffs and made it a crime to offer food and water to voters waiting in line. "I have decided that the best way to demonstrate our values as a sport is by relocating this year's All-Star Game…
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