Several main companies in Georgia have criticized the state’s controversial new voting restrictions, signed into law last week by GOP Gov. Brian Kemp. 

But some of these firms are maintaining quiet on whether they will proceed making donations to Kemp and different Georgia Republicans who help the law.

CNBC reached out to six firms to ask whether they would proceed making company donations to Georgia politicians who help the brand new law. Three responded. One of them, Coca-Cola, pointed to its choice to halt all political giving following the Jan. 6 riot on Capitol Hill.

The new law creates some hurdles to voting by mail and consists of higher legislative oversight over how elections are run. Companies corresponding to Delta attacked the law for being too restrictive.

Various advocacy teams have mentioned the law explicitly impacts Black voters, who performed a key half in Democrats’ stunning victories in two U.S. Senate elections earlier this 12 months and the presidential vote final 12 months. There is even discuss of an thought, supported by President Joe Biden, to move this year’s Major League Baseball All Star Game out of Atlanta. 

Kemp and different Georgia Republicans have defended the law and dismissed corporate concerns about it.

Delta, which is headquartered in Atlanta, came out against the law in a blistering memo Wednesday from CEO Ed Bastian. The firm, by means of its political motion committee, has a historical past of supporting Kemp and several other of the invoice’s sponsors. Since 2018, the PAC has given over $25,000 to Kemp and several other GOP lawmakers. 

A Delta spokeswoman wouldn’t say whether the corporate would halt its donations to Kemp and the law’s different supporters.

“As it relates to DeltaPAC and our political donations, we’ve got sturdy processes in place for reviewing candidates earlier than each contribution to guarantee they align with each Delta’s place on precedence aviation and enterprise points, and our values,” Lisa Hanna, the Delta spokeswoman, mentioned in an electronic mail. “Previous contributions don’t imply DeltaPAC will contribute to a candidate sooner or later.”

The Delta consultant additionally mentioned that “due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve got not made any particular person donations to Georgia State House or Senate candidates since earlier than 2020.”

Critics are calling for extra accountability from companies like Delta.

“Today they have to match their political spending with their rhetoric,” mentioned Bruce Freed, the president of the nonpartisan Center for Political Accountability, which tracks company cash in politics. “They have handed the purpose of no return now, it isn’t only for entry or price free anymore” he famous, whereas pointing to the previous calls for boycotting of some of the Georgia based companies.

“They are actually discovering that it is placing such a deep response amongst customers and among the many public, that it impacts, not solely their popularity, however their backside line,” Freed mentioned in explaining how firms are actually wanting on the public response to their company donations.

For Coca-Cola, it was a matter of sticking to a coverage it instituted after the lethal pro-Trump riot on the Capitol. Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey known as the Georgia law “unacceptable” in a Wednesday interview with CNBC. In an announcement on Thursday, Quincey added that their “focus is now on supporting federal laws that protects voting entry and addresses voter suppression throughout the nation. 

“We suspended all political giving in January and that pause continues,” mentioned Ann Moore, a spokeswoman for Coke. Moore mentioned the corporate’s suspension of contributions impacts state-level candidates, not simply federal ones. 

Since 2018, Coca-Cola gave over $25,000 to the sponsors of the Georgia voting restrictions invoice. That whole consists of over $10,000 to Kemp’s campaigns for governor between 2018 and 2020.

“We have not set any timeline however are persevering with to assume by means of how we use these sources,” Moore mentioned when requested whether the beverage large had any plans to resume contributions.

Home Depot, additionally headquartered in Atlanta, lately mentioned in response to the Georgia voting law that it will work to guarantee its employees throughout the nation have the sources and data to vote. 

The firm wouldn’t say, nevertheless, whether it will proceed to again lawmakers who help the law.

“Our associate-funded PAC helps candidates on each side of the aisle who champion pro-business, pro-retail positions that create jobs and financial development,” mentioned Sara Gorman, a spokeswoman for Home Depot. “As at all times, it will consider future donations in opposition to a quantity of elements.”

Home Depot has given no less than $30,000 to Kemp and the lawmakers who sponsored the invoice.

AT&T is predicated in Texas, nevertheless it gave over $70,000 to Kemp’s marketing campaign and cosponsors of the Georgia invoice. A video on Twitter reveals the Black Voters Matter group protesting exterior of AT&T headquarters on Monday.

The telecom large has but to publicly converse on the Georgia invoice and didn’t return CNBC’s request for remark.

UPS and Southern Company Gas, two Georgia-based firms that both have given by means of their PAC to varied sponsors of the invoice or to Kemp’s marketing campaign, didn’t return a request for remark.

UPS beforehand mentioned it believes “that voting legal guidelines and laws ought to make it simpler, not more durable, for Americans to train their proper to vote.” It didn’t straight tackle the invoice.

After the Jan. 6 riot, UPS mentioned it will droop all PAC contributions in the interim.