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Louisiana: proven election fraud
The Heritage Foundation's database lists 8 proven election-fraud cases in Louisiana since 1982, 8 of them since 2000, most commonly vote buying. Against 3,046,376 registered voters, the since-2000 cases equal 0.00026% of the rolls, or 1 in 381k registered voters. Per ballot, that is 0.58 cases per million presidential votes since 2000: 0.4× the national rate (below average), #38 of 51. Even here, proven fraud touches a vanishing sliver of the vote. What new voting rules would cost →
Louisiana cases by type of fraud, 1982–2025. A case can involve more than one type.
Louisiana cases by year the case concluded, 2000–2025 (8 total). 2025 is incomplete.
Noncitizen audit: 2025 SAVE check
| Records checked | 2,900,000 |
| Noncitizens found registered | 390 (0.0134% of records) |
| Of them (or in total), had voted | 79 (0.0027%) |
| Voting window | at least once since the 1980s |
Referred to prosecutors; two federal indictments so far. All state audits →
Every Louisiana case in the database
7 criminal conviction · 1 judicial 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 | Election overturned November 2023 Caddo Parish Sheriff Runoff Election | Judicial finding | source |
| 2022 | Vote buying | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2022 | Vote buying | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2020 | Vote buying | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2015 | Vote buying, Election overturned Stanley Leger | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2005 | False registration | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2003 | False registration | Criminal conviction | source |
| 2002 | Vote buying | Criminal conviction | source |