BPC is committed to providing the facts about voting in the upcoming election. In addition to partnering with Facebook to create the Voting Information Center, YouTube will be now be citing BPC material on all videos about mail-in voting. Associate director of governance Michael Thorning addresses Pennsylvania's "naked ballots," and ahead of Tuesday's presidential debate, BPC's Shai Akabas urges the two candidates to come up with real policy initiatives to bolster Social Security instead of hiding behind partisan attacks.

In a normal year, there are several threats to the legitimacy of U.S. elections like who gets to vote based on the rules set by each state, or foreign malign interference through misinformation campaigns and the penetration of election infrastructure. But the COVID-19 pandemic adds a new set of threats that are both more prevalent and more pernicious.

Following President Trump's remarks regarding his unwillingness to commit to a peaceful transfer of power should he lose the election, the co-chairs of BPC’s Election Legitimacy Initiative, Michael Steele and Donna Brazile, who headed the RNC and DNC respectively, issued an urgent statement on the importance of both presidential candidates accepting the November election results.