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Missouri: proven election fraud

The Heritage Foundation's database lists 30 proven election-fraud cases in Missouri since 1982, 30 of them since 2000, most commonly false registration. Against 4,388,787 registered voters, the since-2000 cases equal 0.00068% of the rolls, or 1 in 146k registered voters. Per ballot, that is 1.53 cases per million presidential votes since 2000: about the national rate, #23 of 51. Even here, proven fraud touches a vanishing sliver of the vote. What new voting rules would cost →

proven cases, 1982–2025 (29 criminal convictions)

0.00068%

of registered voters: 30 cases since 2000 vs 4,388,787 registered voters (2024)

1.53

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

#23

of 51 by per-ballot rate · 1 noncitizen case

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

False registrations

Double voting

Petition fraud

Absentee / mail ballot fraud

Noncitizen voting

Election overturned

Missouri cases by year the case concluded, 2000–2025 (30 total). 2025 is incomplete.

Every Missouri case in the database

29 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
2025	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2025	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2017	Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2017	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2017	Noncitizen voting	Criminal conviction	source
2016	Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2016	Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2016	Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2016	Election overturned North St. Louis	Judicial finding	source
2015	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2010	Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2010	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2010	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2008	Absentee fraud, Double voting	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	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2008	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2008	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
2006	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2005	Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2005	Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2005	False registration	Criminal conviction	source

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