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Indiana: proven election fraud

The Heritage Foundation's database lists 59 proven election-fraud cases in Indiana since 1982, 59 of them since 2000, most commonly false registration. Against 4,840,856 registered voters, the since-2000 cases equal 0.0012% of the rolls, or 1 in 82k registered voters. Per ballot, that is 3.15 cases per million presidential votes since 2000: 2.0× the national rate, #8 of 51. Even here, proven fraud touches a vanishing sliver of the vote. What new voting rules would cost →

proven cases, 1982–2025 (59 criminal convictions)

0.0012%

of registered voters: 59 cases since 2000 vs 4,840,856 registered voters (2024)

3.15

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

of 51 by per-ballot rate · 0 noncitizen cases

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

False registrations

Absentee / mail ballot fraud

Petition fraud

Election overturned

Nonresident voting

Miscellaneous

Vote buying

Indiana cases by year the case concluded, 2000–2025 (59 total). 2025 is incomplete.

Every Indiana case in the database

59 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
2022	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2022	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2021	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2017	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2017	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2016	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2013	Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2013	Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2013	Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2013	Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2013	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2013	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2013	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2012	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2012	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2012	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2012	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2011	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2008	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2008	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2008	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2008	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2008	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2008	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2008	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2008	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2008	Misc.	Criminal conviction	source
2007	False registration, Nonresident voting, Election overturned Ivan Dunbar	Criminal conviction	source
2007	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2007	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2007	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2007	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2007	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2007	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2007	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2007	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2007	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2007	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2007	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2007	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2007	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2007	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2007	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2007	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2007	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2007	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2007	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2007	Misc.	Criminal conviction	source
2006	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2006	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2006	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2006	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2006	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2006	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2003	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2003	False registration, Election overturned Valerie McGowan	Criminal conviction	source
2003	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2003	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2003	Absentee fraud, Nonresident voting	Criminal conviction	source

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