Signatories embrace firms reminiscent of Amazon, BlackRock and Basic Motors and people reminiscent of Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett, actor Leonardo DiCaprio and music star Ariana Grande.

The assertion is the newest and largest displaying of company backlash to GOP-backed election payments in state legislatures throughout the nation that civil rights advocates say will make it more durable for minorities to vote.

Ken Chenault, former American Categorical CEO, and Ken Frazier, chief govt of Merck, organized the assertion, based on The New York Instances, which first reported on the assertion. The assertion appeared in print commercials Wednesday within the Instances and The Washington Submit.

American Airways, Apple, Financial institution of America, Cisco, Automobilnews, Microsoft, Netflix, Starbucks, Goal, Twitter and Vanguard had been amongst dozens of company names to signal the assertion.

Celebrities to signal on included George Clooney, Queen Latifah, Demi Lovato, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Gwyneth Paltrow, Shonda Rhimes and Dwyane Wade.

Regulation corporations and nonprofits additionally signed the assertion.

Chenault and Frazier two weeks prior spearheaded a coalition of outstanding Black enterprise executives calling on company America to come back out towards voter restrictions. The transfer got here after Georgia’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp, signed into regulation a sprawling election invoice that opponents say disproportionately hurts Black voters.

Georgia-based firms Coca-Cola and Delta Airways, which condemned the Georgia regulation as “unacceptable” after it handed, declined to signal the Wednesday assertion, the Instances reported. Residence Depot, one other firm headquartered within the Peach State, additionally reportedly declined to signal on.

Lawmakers in Georgia threatened to rescind a tax break for Delta following the company’s backlash to the brand new election regulation. Former President Donald Trump earlier in April known as for a boycott of corporations that opposed voter restrictions, together with Delta, Coca-Cola and Main League Baseball, which pulled this summer season’s All-Star Sport out of the Atlanta space in response to the voting laws. Senate Minority Chief Mitch McConnell final week stated firms ought to “keep out of politics.”

Firms and enterprise leaders are wading into the controversy over voting rights as lawmakers contemplate election laws on the state and native stage.

Nonpartisan coverage institute Brennan Middle for Justice tracked 361 payments with restrictive provisions launched in 47 states throughout the nation as of March 24.

The Senate is contemplating a sweeping election reform invoice, the For the Folks Act, which Democrats see as a technique to fight the Republican-backed voter restrictions in state legislatures.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce launched a letter Tuesday strongly opposing the For the Folks Act.