It was deja preview all over again.

Today, the issue was ballot harvesting  This is a practice where a campaign worker collects absentee ballots from voters and fills them out, but not in the presence of the voter.

Listening to my Republican colleagues on the House floor, one might think that there was a pandemic of such fraudulent acts during last year’s election

The facts are otherwise.

There have been isolated cases of fraud associated with ballot harvesting. The notable exception was in a North Carolina congressional race in 2018 on behalf of the Republican candidate.

https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/may/29/what-ballot-harvesting-and-why-trump-tweeting-abou/

We will no doubt continue to hear these false claims of fraud on other bills that expand access to the ballot this legislative session and next.