The Right to Vote
David Taylor
Senior Advisor, Clayton Dubilier & Rice LLC. Former Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer, Procter & Gamble
Over the last few days, the issue of voting access has become sharply in focus. As a U.S. citizen, this concerns me as I am sure it concerns many of you, and I feel it is important you know where P&G stands.
To be clear, P&G is not a political organization, and as a Company we don’t take a position on every candidate or legislative item. However, we do take a position on the act of voting itself—we firmly believe voting is one of the most fundamental rights we have, and every citizen deserves the right to vote and to have their vote counted, respected and protected.
The act of voting is an act of public service. Every effort should be made to support easy access for citizens to vote, not make the ability to vote more restrictive.
At P&G, we try to do our part. We provide paid time off to P&G employees for voting and flexibility for civic engagement as well as other resources for employees to understand how they can participate in the democratic process. We also make our voice heard with policymakers through industry groups like the Business Roundtable, which has also shared a point of view on this topic.
Much as we have learned innovative new ways to work and operate differently over the past year, we should be bringing similar types of inventive efforts to bear on the voting process to ensure every citizen who wants to vote has the opportunity to do so. Voting should be easily, safely and securely accessible to every U.S. citizen.
Together, we have lived through a lot of uncertainty over the last year—the ability to vote should not be one of those uncertainties.
Chief External Affairs Officer at A Better Chicago
3 年Thanks, David, for lending your voice to such an important issue that impacts everyone in our nation and is desperately in need of more leadership. I appreciate and agree with your sentiments.
Former Vice-Chair Omnicom, Exec consultant,Author/Artist, Board advisor Openly Gray
3 年Good to hear from you on this David.
“Much as we have learned innovative new ways to work and operate differently over the past year, we should be bringing similar types of inventive efforts to bear on the voting process to ensure every citizen who wants to vote has the opportunity to do so. Voting should be easily, safely and securely accessible to every U.S. citizen.” “to ensure every citizen who wants to vote has the opportunity to do so”? Do you mean to say “ to ensure every citizen who is legally qualified and wants to vote has the opportunity to do so”?
Program Development Leader | Consumer Products
3 年In my entire life, I have never heard a single person say that a legal citizen should not have the right and ability to vote. Not once. Not ever. There is no question anywhere, on this point. It would be refreshing I believe for the vast resources of all levels of government (and corporations feeling a need to "weigh in") to be focused on one citizen, one vote.?And, the verifiable integrity of that vote. ?There should be no reason on earth, we cannot all agree on this.?That's not political; that's just right. All these theatrics just blur this point.
Vice President R&D Global Oral Care at Procter & Gamble
3 年One of the many reasons that make me a proud PGer! #pgemployee