New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has now twice suggested that
Hillary Clinton's push to allow 20 days of early voting will lead to rampant voter fraud.
He first suggested it on Friday.
"My sense is that she just wants an opportunity to commit greater acts of voter fraud around the country."
He went at it again over the weekend during a sit-down interview on CBS's Face the Nation when he was asked about Clinton's push by anchor John Dickerson.
Christie has yet to produce any evidence to support his suggestion that voter fraud in New Jersey is a widespread problem and his weekend appearance was no exception.
DICKERSON: Hillary Clinton mentioned you and said you and other Republicans are trying to make it harder for people to vote. What is your reaction to that?
CHRISTIE: She doesn't know what she's talking about.
In New Jersey, we have early voting that are available to people. I don't want to expand it and increase the opportunities for fraud. Maybe that's what Mrs. Clinton wants to do. I don't know.
But the fact is that folks in New Jersey have plenty of an opportunity to vote. And maybe if she took some questions some places and learned some things, maybe she wouldn't make such ridiculous statements.
DICKERSON: She says it's fear-mongering, this idea that there's a lot of election fraud going on.
CHRISTIE: Yes. Well, she's never been to New Jersey, I guess.
That's where the query stopped. As others have
pointed out, Dickerson entirely missed the opportunity for a follow up question there, like, "Do you have any specific evidence of widespread voter fraud in New Jersey?"
Voter fraud is the myth that persists, as multiple news outlets have pointed out. Last year the Washington Post highlighted the fact that an investigation of one billion ballots cast between 2000 and 2014 has revealed a whopping 31 credible instances of fraud. Apparently, they were all in New Jersey.