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Mississippi: proven election fraud

The Heritage Foundation's database lists 45 proven election-fraud cases in Mississippi since 1982, 43 of them since 2000, most commonly vote buying. Against 2,131,726 registered voters, the since-2000 cases equal 0.0020% of the rolls, or 1 in 50k registered voters. Per ballot, that is 5.08 cases per million presidential votes since 2000: 3.2× the national rate, #5 of 51. Even here, proven fraud touches a vanishing sliver of the vote. What new voting rules would cost →

proven cases, 1982–2025 (38 criminal convictions)

0.0020%

of registered voters: 43 cases since 2000 vs 2,131,726 registered voters (2024)

5.08

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

of 51 by per-ballot rate · 0 noncitizen cases

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

Vote buying

False registrations

Absentee / mail ballot fraud

Felon voting

Nonresident voting

Illegal “assistance” at polls

Election overturned

Altering the vote count

Miscellaneous

Mississippi cases by year the case concluded, 2000–2025 (43 total). 2025 is incomplete.

Every Mississippi case in the database

38 criminal conviction · 5 diversion program · 1 civil penalty · 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
2021	Election overturned June 2020 Aberdeen First Ward Alderman Primary Election	Judicial finding	source
2019	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2019	Vote buying	Diversion program	source
2019	False registration, Nonresident voting	Diversion program	source
2019	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2019	Misc.	Criminal conviction	source
2018	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2015	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2015	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2015	False registration	Diversion program	source
2014	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2014	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2014	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2014	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2013	Altering count	Criminal conviction	source
2011	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2011	Absentee fraud, Felon voting	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	Nonresident voting	Criminal conviction	source
2009	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2009	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2009	Absentee fraud	Diversion program	source
2007	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2007	Absentee fraud, Illegal assistance	Civil penalty	source
2004	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2004	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2004	False registration	Diversion program	source
2003	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2003	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2003	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
1993	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
1993	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source

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