Most recently the "Securing America's Federal Elections Act," which had been passed by the House, that would have directed $600 million in election assistance to states and require backup paper ballots. McConnell called it "just a highly partisan bill from the same folks who spent two years hyping up a conspiracy theory about President Trump and Russia" and blocked it from coming to the Senate floor for a vote.
This is on top of his blocking other, related efforts:
A bipartisan bill requiring Facebook, Google and other Internet companies to disclose purchasers of political ads, to identify foreign influence. A bipartisan bill to ease cooperation between state election officials and federal intelligence agencies. A bipartisan bill imposing sanctions on any entity that attacks a U.S. election. A bipartisan bill with severe new sanctions on Russia for its cybercrimes.
And, of course, in 2016 he blocked a joint bipartisan statement with President Obama warning about Russian efforts to interfere. Obama didn't issue a statement by himself because he thought it would appear that he was the one interfering in the election.
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