Spencer Overton is the Patricia Roberts Harris Research Professor of Law at the George Washington University. He is the author of the book Stealing Democracy: The New Politics of Voter Suppression, the law review article Overcoming Racial Harms to Democracy from Artificial Intelligence, and several other publications on democracy and race. He also directs GW Law's Multiracial Democracy Project, which is currently working on research projects on the implications of artificial intelligence and alternative election systems for truly representative democracy in the United States. He has testified several times before Congress on policies to stop online disinformation and deepfakes (June 2020, October 2020, March 2023, and November 2023), voter suppression, and the Voting Rights Act. He has also appeared as a frequent commentator on election law issues on MSNBC, NPR, and other media outlets, and is a contributor to the Election Law Blog.