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Michigan: proven election fraud

The Heritage Foundation's database lists 19 proven election-fraud cases in Michigan since 1982, 19 of them since 2000, most commonly absentee fraud. Against 8,440,236 registered voters, the since-2000 cases equal 0.00023% of the rolls, or 1 in 444k registered voters. Per ballot, that is 0.55 cases per million presidential votes since 2000: 0.3× the national rate (below average), #40 of 51. Even here, proven fraud touches a vanishing sliver of the vote. What new voting rules would cost →

proven cases, 1982–2025 (19 criminal convictions)

0.00023%

of registered voters: 19 cases since 2000 vs 8,440,236 registered voters (2024)

0.55

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

#40

of 51 by per-ballot rate · 1 noncitizen case

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

Absentee / mail ballot fraud

Petition fraud

False registrations

Noncitizen voting

Vote buying

Altering the vote count

Illegal “assistance” at polls

Michigan cases by year the case concluded, 2000–2025 (19 total). 2025 is incomplete.

Noncitizen audit: 2025 review of Nov 2024

Records checked	7,200,000
Of them (or in total), had voted	16 (0.00022%)
Voting window	Nov 2024 (of 5.7M ballots)

13 referred to the attorney general; one already charged. All state audits →

Every Michigan case in the database

19 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
2023	Altering count	Criminal conviction	source
2023	Absentee fraud, Illegal assistance	Criminal conviction	source
2022	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2022	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2021	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2016	Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2015	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2014	Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2014	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2014	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2014	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2014	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2013	Noncitizen voting	Criminal conviction	source
2012	Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2012	Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2012	Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2012	Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2012	Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2007	Absentee fraud, Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source

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