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Iowa: proven election fraud

The Heritage Foundation's database lists 29 proven election-fraud cases in Iowa since 1982, 29 of them since 2000, most commonly felon voting. Against 2,256,774 registered voters, the since-2000 cases equal 0.0013% of the rolls, or 1 in 78k registered voters. Per ballot, that is 2.66 cases per million presidential votes since 2000: 1.7× the national rate, #11 of 51. Even here, proven fraud touches a vanishing sliver of the vote. What new voting rules would cost →

proven cases, 1982–2025 (26 criminal convictions)

0.0013%

of registered voters: 29 cases since 2000 vs 2,256,774 registered voters (2024)

2.66

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

#11

of 51 by per-ballot rate · 3 noncitizen cases

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

Felon voting

Absentee / mail ballot fraud

False registrations

Noncitizen voting

Double voting

Iowa cases by year the case concluded, 2000–2025 (29 total). 2025 is incomplete.

Noncitizen audit: 2024–25 audit

Records checked	2,300,000
Noncitizens found registered	277 (0.0120% of records)
Of them (or in total), had voted	35 (0.0015%)
Voting window	Nov 2024 general

2,176 flagged at first; all 277 confirmed noncitizens referred to the attorney general. All state audits →

Every Iowa case in the database

26 criminal conviction · 3 diversion program. 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
2024	False registration	Diversion program	source
2023	Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2020	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2017	Absentee fraud, Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2016	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2016	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2014	Noncitizen voting	Criminal conviction	source
2014	Noncitizen voting	Diversion program	source
2014	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2014	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2013	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2013	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2013	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2012	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2012	Absentee fraud	Diversion program	source
2012	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2011	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2011	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2011	Noncitizen voting	Criminal conviction	source
2011	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2011	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2011	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2011	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2011	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2011	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2011	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2011	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2011	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2011	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source

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