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Florida: proven election fraud

The Heritage Foundation's database lists 93 proven election-fraud cases in Florida since 1982, 89 of them since 2000, most commonly false registration. Against 15,740,083 registered voters, the since-2000 cases equal 0.00057% of the rolls, or 1 in 177k registered voters. Per ballot, that is 1.44 cases per million presidential votes since 2000: about the national rate, #25 of 51. Even here, proven fraud touches a vanishing sliver of the vote. What new voting rules would cost →

proven cases, 1982–2025 (78 criminal convictions)

0.00057%

of registered voters: 89 cases since 2000 vs 15,740,083 registered voters (2024)

1.44

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

#25

of 51 by per-ballot rate · 15 noncitizen cases

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

False registrations

Felon voting

Noncitizen voting

Absentee / mail ballot fraud

Double voting

Miscellaneous

Election overturned

Petition fraud

Altering the vote count

Impersonation at the polls

Other ineligible voting

Florida cases by year the case concluded, 2000–2025 (89 total). 2025 is incomplete.

Every Florida case in the database

78 criminal conviction · 9 diversion program · 1 civil penalty · 3 judicial finding · 2 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	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2024	Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2024	False registration, Noncitizen voting	Criminal conviction	source
2024	False registration, Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2024	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2024	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2023	Petition fraud	Diversion program	source
2023	Double voting	Diversion program	source
2023	Double voting	Diversion program	source
2023	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2023	False registration, Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2023	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2023	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2023	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2023	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2023	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2023	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2023	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2023	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2023	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2022	Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2022	Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2022	Absentee fraud, Double voting	Diversion program	source
2022	Absentee fraud, Double voting	Diversion program	source
2022	Absentee fraud, Double voting	Diversion program	source
2022	False registration, Felon voting, Ineligible voting	Criminal conviction	source
2022	False registration, Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2022	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2022	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2022	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2022	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2022	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2022	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2022	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2022	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2022	Misc.	Criminal conviction	source
2022	Misc.	Criminal conviction	source
2022	Misc.	Criminal conviction	source
2021	Double voting	Diversion program	source
2021	Election overturned 2020 Eatonville Town Council Election	Judicial finding	source
2021	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2021	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2021	Absentee fraud	Diversion program	source
2020	Absentee fraud, Impersonation	Criminal conviction	source
2018	Double voting	Diversion program	Case No. 2018 CF 001902 A
2018	False registration	Official finding	source
2018	False registration	Criminal conviction	Case No. 2017 CF 000936
2018	False registration	Criminal conviction	Case No. 2017 CF 000865
2018	False registration	Criminal conviction	Case No. 2017 CF 000883
2018	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2017	Altering count	Criminal conviction	source
2017	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2017	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2017	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2017	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2017	Felon voting	Official finding	source
2015	False registration	Civil penalty	source
2015	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2015	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2014	Misc.	Criminal conviction	source
2013	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2013	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2013	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2013	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2013	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2012	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2012	Noncitizen voting	Criminal conviction	source
2010	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2010	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2010	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2010	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2010	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2010	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2010	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2010	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2006	Noncitizen voting	Criminal conviction	source
2005	Noncitizen voting	Criminal conviction	US v. Torres-Perez,Case #04-CR-14046
2005	Noncitizen voting	Criminal conviction	US v. Rickman,Case #04-CR-20491
2005	Noncitizen voting	Criminal conviction	source
2005	Noncitizen voting	Criminal conviction	source
2004	Noncitizen voting	Criminal conviction	U.S. v. Phillip,Case #04-CR- 80103
2004	Noncitizen voting	Criminal conviction	source
2004	Noncitizen voting	Criminal conviction	U.S. v. O'Neil,Case #04-CR-60165
2004	Noncitizen voting	Criminal conviction	U.S. v. Lubin,Case #04-CR-60163
2004	Noncitizen voting	Criminal conviction	U.S. v. Bennett,Case #04-CR-14048
2004	Noncitizen voting	Criminal conviction	U.S. v. McKenzie,Case #04-CR-60160
2004	Noncitizen voting	Criminal conviction	U.S. v. Shivdayal,Case #04-CR-60164
2003	Noncitizen voting	Criminal conviction	source
2000	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
1999	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1998	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
1996	Election overturned Hialeah, FL	Judicial finding	source
1992	Election overturned Hardee County	Judicial finding	source

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