Political ad spending will not end when Election Day does. The National Council on Election Integrity, a group organized by campaign finance watchdog Issue One, said Monday it will spend $6 million on an advocacy campaign focused on the post-election period to ensure every vote is counted.
“November 3 is the last day for votes to be cast—not the last day for votes to be counted,” said Michael Beckel, spokesperson for the council and research director at Issue One, in a statement. “The Constitution and state election laws require us to count every vote, including legally cast absentee votes. We all have a patriotic duty to make sure all voters’ voices are heard and to let state and local election officials do their jobs without outside interference.”
The council is bipartisan and lists members as including Democrats such as former Democratic National Committee chair Donna Brazile and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright alongside Republicans such as former Sen. Dan Coats, who previously served as Director of National Intelligence for the Trump administration, and former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist.
