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Illinois: proven election fraud

The Heritage Foundation's database lists 117 proven election-fraud cases in Illinois since 1982, 54 of them since 2000, most commonly false registration. Against 8,970,541 registered voters, the since-2000 cases equal 0.00060% of the rolls, or 1 in 166k registered voters. Per ballot, that is 1.42 cases per million presidential votes since 2000: about the national rate, #27 of 51. Even here, proven fraud touches a vanishing sliver of the vote. What new voting rules would cost →

117

proven cases, 1982–2025 (112 criminal convictions)

0.00060%

of registered voters: 54 cases since 2000 vs 8,970,541 registered voters (2024)

1.42

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

#27

of 51 by per-ballot rate · 10 noncitizen cases

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

False registrations

Absentee / mail ballot fraud

Noncitizen voting

Vote buying

Double voting

Petition fraud

Illinois cases by year the case concluded, 2000–2025 (54 total). 2025 is incomplete.

Every Illinois case in the database

112 criminal conviction · 1 diversion program · 1 civil penalty · 3 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
2023	Double voting	Diversion program	source
2020	Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2018	Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2018	Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2018	Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2018	Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2018	Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2018	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2018	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2018	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2018	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2018	Noncitizen voting	Criminal conviction	source
2018	Noncitizen voting	Criminal conviction	source
2018	Noncitizen voting	Criminal conviction	trib.in/2zdkpt9,bit.ly/2zfRy7E
2017	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2017	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2017	Noncitizen voting	Criminal conviction	source
2016	Double voting	Criminal conviction	Case Number: 18CF00000538
2016	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2015	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2014	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2013	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2013	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2012	Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2012	Noncitizen voting	Criminal conviction	source
2012	Noncitizen voting	Criminal conviction	source
2012	Noncitizen voting	Criminal conviction	source
2011	Absentee fraud, False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2010	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2010	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2010	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2010	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2010	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2010	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2009	Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2009	Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2009	Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2009	Noncitizen voting	Official finding	source
2009	Noncitizen voting	Official finding	source
2008	Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2007	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2007	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2007	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2007	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2007	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2007	Noncitizen voting	Official finding	source
2005	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2004	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2004	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2004	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2004	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2004	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2004	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2002	Double voting	Civil penalty	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1982	False registration	Criminal conviction	source

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