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California: proven election fraud
The Heritage Foundation's database lists 71 proven election-fraud cases in California since 1982, 70 of them since 2000, most commonly false registration. Against 25,720,597 registered voters, the since-2000 cases equal 0.00027% of the rolls, or 1 in 367k registered voters. Per ballot, that is 0.72 cases per million presidential votes since 2000: 0.5× the national rate (below average), #35 of 51. Even here, proven fraud touches a vanishing sliver of the vote. What new voting rules would cost →
71
proven cases, 1982–2025 (62 criminal convictions)
0.00027%
of registered voters: 70 cases since 2000 vs 25,720,597 registered voters (2024)
0.72
cases per million presidential ballots, 2000–2024 (U.S.: 1.58)
#35
of 51 by per-ballot rate · 2 noncitizen cases
California cases by type of fraud, 1982–2025. A case can involve more than one type.
California cases by year the case concluded, 2000–2025 (70 total). 2025 is incomplete.
Every California case in the database
62 criminal conviction · 5 diversion program · 4 judicial 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 | False registration | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2024 | Absentee fraud, Double voting | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2023 | Absentee fraud | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2022 | Election overturned June 2021 Compton City Council Race | Judicial finding | source |
| 2022 | False registration | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2022 | False registration | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2022 | Absentee fraud, Impersonation | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2022 | Nonresident voting | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2022 | Nonresident voting | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2022 | Nonresident voting | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2021 | False registration | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2021 | False registration | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2021 | False registration | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2021 | Absentee fraud, Impersonation | Diversion program | source |
| 2020 | Petition fraud | Criminal conviction | Case no. 18-NF-002566-A |
| 2020 | Petition fraud | Criminal conviction | Case no. 18-NF-002566-B |
| 2020 | Petition fraud | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2020 | Vote buying, Petition fraud | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2020 | False registration, Vote buying, Petition fraud | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2020 | False registration, Vote buying, Petition fraud | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2020 | False registration, Vote buying, Petition fraud | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2020 | False registration, Petition fraud | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2020 | False registration, Petition fraud | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2020 | False registration, Petition fraud | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2020 | False registration | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2019 | Double voting | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2019 | Double voting | Diversion program | source |
| 2019 | False registration | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2019 | Noncitizen voting | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2018 | Petition fraud | Criminal conviction | Case No. 8CJ09089 |
| 2018 | Petition fraud | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2018 | Double voting | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2017 | False registration | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2017 | False registration | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2017 | False registration | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2016 | Petition fraud | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2016 | Double voting | Diversion program | source |
| 2016 | Double voting | Diversion program | source |
| 2016 | Double voting | Diversion program | source |
| 2016 | False registration | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2015 | Double voting | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2015 | False registration | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2014 | False registration | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2014 | False registration | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2014 | False registration | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2014 | False registration | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2012 | Election overturned Vernon, CA | Judicial finding | source |
| 2012 | Absentee fraud | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2012 | Absentee fraud | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2012 | Noncitizen voting | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2011 | False registration | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2011 | False registration | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2011 | False registration | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2010 | Double voting | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2010 | False registration | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2009 | False registration | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2009 | False registration | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2009 | False registration | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2008 | False registration | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2008 | False registration | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2008 | False registration | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2007 | Petition fraud | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2006 | False registration, Petition fraud | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2006 | False registration | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2006 | False registration | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2006 | False registration | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2005 | False registration | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2002 | False registration | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2002 | False registration | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2001 | Election overturned Compton, CA | Judicial finding | source |
| 1993 | Election overturned Frank Revis and BAPAC | Judicial finding | source |