Swift: Unable to long-press drag cells to empty sections in UICollectionViewController and UITableView

Previously, I tried to replace the standard apple reorder controls (dragging cell from handle on right) with a long press drag in a UITableView. However, with the longpress drag I was for some reason unable to move cells to a section with no cells in it already. Now I am trying to implement a function where users can drag cells between 2 sections in a UICollectionViewController instead of a UITableView. I implemented the long-press drag function but I am having the same issue for some reason. How would I add a dummy cell to the sections so that they are never empty or is there a better way around this? Also is there a way to drag cells without having to longpress?

These are the functions I added to my UICollectionViewController class to enable the long-press drag:

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

    let longPressGesture = UILongPressGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: "handleLongGesture:")
    self.collectionView!.addGestureRecognizer(longPressGesture)
}

func handleLongGesture(gesture: UILongPressGestureRecognizer) {

    switch(gesture.state) {

    case UIGestureRecognizerState.Began:
        guard let selectedIndexPath = self.collectionView!.indexPathForItemAtPoint(gesture.locationInView(self.collectionView)) else {
            break
        }
        collectionView!.beginInteractiveMovementForItemAtIndexPath(selectedIndexPath)
    case UIGestureRecognizerState.Changed:
        collectionView!.updateInteractiveMovementTargetPosition(gesture.locationInView(gesture.view!))
    case UIGestureRecognizerState.Ended:
        collectionView!.endInteractiveMovement()
    default:
        collectionView!.cancelInteractiveMovement()
    }
}

override func collectionView(collectionView: UICollectionView, moveItemAtIndexPath sourceIndexPath: NSIndexPath, toIndexPath destinationIndexPath: NSIndexPath) {

    let fromRow = sourceIndexPath.row
    let toRow = destinationIndexPath.row
    let fromSection = sourceIndexPath.section
    let toSection = destinationIndexPath.section

    var item: Item
    if fromSection == 0 {
        item = section1Items[fromRow]
        section1Items.removeAtIndex(fromRow)
    } else {
        item = section2Items[sourceIndexPath.row]
        section2Items.removeAtIndex(fromRow)
    }

    if toSection == 0 {
        section1Items.insert(score, atIndex: toRow)
    } else {
        section2Items.insert(score, atIndex: toRow)
    }
}

override func collectionView(collectionView: UICollectionView, canMoveItemAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> Bool {
    return true
}

Thanks