In 2020, Issue One partnered with a bipartisan group of noted political, government, and civic leaders to create the National Council on Election Integrity, aimed at protecting the integrity of the 2020 election. The group launched the Count Every Vote campaign in October of 2020, urging Americans to be patient while election officials took more time than normal to count votes due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and calling for all Americans regardless of political party to respect the outcome, running a multi-million dollar campaign of national ads. The group also pushed back publicly against claims by former President Donald Trump that the election was plagued by fraud before and after the election. Current and former members of the National Council on Election Integrity include Dan Coats, Madeleine Albright, Tom Daschle, Bill Frist, Donna Brazile, Dick Gephardt, Jane Harman, Susan Molinari, Leon Panetta, Tom Ridge and Chuck Hagel. The group has remained active after the election, calling for peace in the wake of the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot and calling on Congress to create a bipartisan and independent commission to investigate the events of that day.