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By Charlie McCarthy | NEWSMAX<\/p>\n
A North Carolina county is banning Coca-Cola vending machines from its office buildings due to the company’s politics.<\/p>\n
Surry County commissioners sent a letter to Coca-Cola saying they were banning the machines in county-owned buildings due to the Atlanta-based company\u2019s criticism of Georgia’s new voting laws.<\/p>\n
The commissioners voted 3-2 to ban the machines, according to\u00a0WRAL<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Millions of Americans believe that the last presidential election was not held in a fair manner and that more voter fraud will occur in the future if elections are not more closely monitored and regulated,” wrote Eddie Harris, Surry County’s longest-serving commissioner.<\/p>\n Harris, saying it was time someone spoke out against left-wing politics, told\u00a0WXII 12<\/a>\u00a0he hoped Surry County\u2019s action will spread across North Carolina. He added\u00a0the problem goes beyond Coke.<\/p>\n “Yes, we are trying to cancel Coca-Cola,” Harris told WRAL. “To use their tactics against them.”<\/p>\n Harris told WRAL the ban was a way to take a stand against “cancel culture,” and the idea that progressives are trying to silence conservative voices.<\/p>\n In his letter, written under Surry County letterhead, Harris wrote the electoral process was “such a mess,” which is why the country needs better election security and voter ID laws to make sure “the right people” are voting.<\/p>\n Harris told WRAL he accepted Joe Biden as president, but believed\u00a0conservatives “have a right to know what goes on in their elections.”<\/p>\n Harris said the response to the Coke boycott mostly has been positive.<\/p>\n At the moment, the Coke vending machines remain in Surry County office buildings. A spokesman for Coca-Cola Consolidated, a bottling company separate from Coca-Cola, said the company had reached out to commissioners in hopes of setting up a meeting to discuss the situation.<\/p>\n The\u00a0New York Post<\/a>\u00a0reported it was not clear how many vending machines were in official Surry County buildings. The county has roughly 73,000 residents.<\/p>\n Surry County is located in the northwest section of North Carolina and borders Virginia.<\/p>\n