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Alabama: proven election fraud

The Heritage Foundation's database lists 41 proven election-fraud cases in Alabama since 1982, 41 of them since 2000, most commonly absentee fraud. Against 3,868,040 registered voters, the since-2000 cases equal 0.0011% of the rolls, or 1 in 94k registered voters. Per ballot, that is 2.84 cases per million presidential votes since 2000: 1.8× the national rate, #9 of 51. Even here, proven fraud touches a vanishing sliver of the vote. What new voting rules would cost →

proven cases, 1982–2025 (38 criminal convictions)

0.0011%

of registered voters: 41 cases since 2000 vs 3,868,040 registered voters (2024)

2.84

cases per million presidential ballots, 2000–2024 (U.S.: 1.58)

of 51 by per-ballot rate · 2 noncitizen cases

Alabama cases by type of fraud, 1982–2025. A case can involve more than one type.

Absentee / mail ballot fraud

Vote buying

False registrations

Election overturned

Noncitizen voting

Impersonation at the polls

Alabama cases by year the case concluded, 2000–2025 (41 total). 2025 is incomplete.

Noncitizen audit: SAVE check

Noncitizens found registered	186 (0.0048% of 2024 registered voters)
Of them (or in total), had voted	25 (0.00065%)
Voting window	ever

Identified through the federal SAVE database and removed after they did not send proof of citizenship; the state says 25 had voted. A separate 2024 purge flagged 3,251 voters; a federal court halted it as too close to the election, and the state admitted the list included thousands of citizens. All state audits →

Every Alabama case in the database

38 criminal conviction · 2 judicial finding · 1 official finding. Individuals are not named here; each row links to the court record or news report Heritage cites. Overturned races are named.

Year	Type	Outcome	Source
2025	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2024	False registration, Noncitizen voting	Criminal conviction	source
2023	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2023	Absentee fraud, False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2019	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2017	Absentee fraud, Election overturned Wetumpka City Council District 2	Official finding	source
2017	Absentee fraud	Judicial finding	source
2016	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2015	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2015	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2015	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2012	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2012	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2012	Noncitizen voting	Criminal conviction	source
2010	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2010	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2009	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2009	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2005	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2005	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2005	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2005	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2005	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2005	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2005	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2005	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2004	Election overturned Guntersville, Alabama	Judicial finding	source
2004	Impersonation	Criminal conviction	source
2002	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2002	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2000	Absentee fraud, Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2000	Absentee fraud, Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2000	Absentee fraud, Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2000	Absentee fraud, Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2000	Absentee fraud, Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2000	Absentee fraud, Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2000	Absentee fraud, Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2000	Absentee fraud, Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2000	Absentee fraud, Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2000	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2000	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source

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