A primer for those caught between the left and the right:

WHY IS GEORGIA CHANGING ITS VOTING LAW?
Because of Trump's conspiracy theory about 2020 voter fraud.

WHAT'S THE BIG CHANGE?
The law complicates almost every step in the voting process for absentee voters (who were responsible for Trump losing the state).

Registration is harder: Absentee voters are now required to provide the number of their state-issued ID (They could earlier just sign their name).

Requesting a ballot is harder: Georgians had six months to request an absentee ballot in 2020; now they have only about three months.

Delivering a ballot is harder: The law reduces the number of drop boxes.

But that's not the worst part.

The most ominous provision affects the official count. The law removes the Georgia secretary of state as chair of the Election Board letting the GOP-controlled legislature choose his replacement.

Imaging what could have happened in November if the person overseeing the vote had been handpicked by Republicans.

BUT IS IT REALLY JIM CROW 2.0?
No. Comparison to poll taxes, literacy tests and whites-only primaries is liberal hyperbole.

DO BLUE STATES FARE BETTER IN VOTING RIGHTS?
Nope. Biden's home state Delaware is hardly a model for voting rights. It is a laggard on early voting, and no-excuse absentee voting is still not legalized. Georgia, by contrast, permits many weeks of early voting and allows no-excuse absentee voting.

Activists focus their outrage on a swing state like Georgia but its voting rights have been more accommodating than those of Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

ARE COCA COLA, MLB AND DELTA RIGHT IN HOW THEY RESPONDED?
Only if the intent is punishing states for moving in the wrong direction. But they are inconsistent. MLB headquarters, for eg, are in New York, which has an abysmal election administration.

Companies respond to incentives. Just as politicians know they can entice companies with tax subsidies to move business into a state, activists know they can entice companies with moral suasion to move business out of a state.

WHAT'S NEXT?
The battle is now moving to Texas, where the legislature is introducing omnibus changes to voting law.