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Arizona: proven election fraud

The Heritage Foundation's database lists 40 proven election-fraud cases in Arizona since 1982, 40 of them since 2000, most commonly double voting. Against 5,075,337 registered voters, the since-2000 cases equal 0.00079% of the rolls, or 1 in 127k registered voters. Per ballot, that is 2.29 cases per million presidential votes since 2000: 1.5× the national rate, #14 of 51. Even here, proven fraud touches a vanishing sliver of the vote. What new voting rules would cost →

proven cases, 1982–2025 (40 criminal convictions)

0.00079%

of registered voters: 40 cases since 2000 vs 5,075,337 registered voters (2024)

2.29

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

#14

of 51 by per-ballot rate · 0 noncitizen cases

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

Double voting

Absentee / mail ballot fraud

Felon voting

False registrations

Impersonation at the polls

Miscellaneous

Other ineligible voting

Arizona cases by year the case concluded, 2000–2025 (40 total). 2025 is incomplete.

Every Arizona case in the database

40 criminal conviction. 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
2023	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2023	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2023	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2022	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2022	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2022	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2022	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2022	Absentee fraud, Ineligible voting	Criminal conviction	source
2022	Impersonation	Criminal conviction	source
2022	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2022	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2022	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2020	Absentee fraud, Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2020	Impersonation	Criminal conviction	source
2019	Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2018	Misc.	Criminal conviction	Case No. CR 2016-002415 (Maricopa County)
2018	Misc.	Criminal conviction	Case No. CR 2016-002416 (Maricopa County)
2016	Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2016	Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2016	Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2016	Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2016	Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2016	Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2016	Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2016	Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2015	Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2015	Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2014	Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2014	Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2014	Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2014	Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2014	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2014	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2012	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2011	Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2011	Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2011	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2011	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2009	Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2009	Double voting	Criminal conviction	source

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