This Tuesday voters will go to the polls to pick their elected officials in local, state and federal elections. A significant percentage of the electorate may not accept the results of Tuesday’s elections as legitimate.
“Right now about 30 percent of Americans do not believe the 2020 election was legitimate and they don’t see Joe Biden at a legitimate president. And that has real consequences,” explains election law legal expert Spencer Overton.
Spencer Overton is a professor of law at George Washington University and has an expertise in how election denial threatens democracy, along with tracking voter suppression methods. He is the author of Stealing Democracy: The New Politics of Voter Suppression and the president of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, which was founded in 1970 and is America’s Black think tank.
Professor Overton is available to provide commentary on topics related to election security, how election denial threatens democracy, voter suppression and election-related lawsuit and offer potential solutions to the threats facing U.S. elections.
Watch a clip of Professor Overton discuss threats to U.S. election and solutions to improve voter access.