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Kentucky: proven election fraud

The Heritage Foundation's database lists 62 proven election-fraud cases in Kentucky since 1982, 62 of them since 2000, most commonly vote buying. Against 3,548,136 registered voters, the since-2000 cases equal 0.0017% of the rolls, or 1 in 57k registered voters. Per ballot, that is 4.73 cases per million presidential votes since 2000: 3.0× the national rate, #6 of 51. Even here, proven fraud touches a vanishing sliver of the vote. What new voting rules would cost →

proven cases, 1982–2025 (57 criminal convictions)

0.0017%

of registered voters: 62 cases since 2000 vs 3,548,136 registered voters (2024)

4.73

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

of 51 by per-ballot rate · 0 noncitizen cases

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

Vote buying

Absentee / mail ballot fraud

Felon voting

Miscellaneous

Kentucky cases by year the case concluded, 2000–2025 (62 total). 2025 is incomplete.

Every Kentucky case in the database

57 criminal conviction · 5 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	Absentee fraud, Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2024	Absentee fraud, Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2024	Absentee fraud, Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2023	Absentee fraud, Vote buying	Diversion program	source
2023	Absentee fraud, Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2023	Absentee fraud, Vote buying	Diversion program	source
2023	Absentee fraud, Vote buying	Diversion program	source
2017	Misc.	Criminal conviction	source
2016	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2016	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2016	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2016	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2014	Absentee fraud, Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2014	Absentee fraud, Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2014	Absentee fraud, Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2012	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2012	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2012	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2012	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2012	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2011	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2011	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2011	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2011	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2011	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2011	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2011	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2010	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2010	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2010	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2010	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2010	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2010	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2010	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2010	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2010	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2010	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2010	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2010	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2010	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2010	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2010	Felon voting	Diversion program	source
2010	Felon voting	Diversion program	source
2009	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2009	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2009	Felon voting	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	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2006	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2006	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2006	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2006	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2006	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2005	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	NO PDF Links
2005	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2005	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2003	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2003	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source

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