Trevor Potter
President, Campaign Legal Center
Potter is the former chairman of the Federal Election Commission and served as general counsel to Sen. John McCain’s 2000 and 2008 presidential campaigns. The following is an excerpt from his testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Rules & Administration during a hearing on “AI and the Future of our Elections” on Sept. 27, 2023. To understand what is at issue when we talk about AI impacting our elections, a good place to start is how money influences our elections. Every election cycle, candidates, parties, and a wide array of outside groups spend billions of dollars to influence voters…
