North Dakota: proven election fraud

The Heritage Foundation's database lists 12 proven election-fraud cases in North Dakota since 1982, 12 of them since 2000, most commonly petition fraud. Per ballot, that is 5.18 cases per million presidential votes since 2000: 3.3× the national rate, #4 of 51. Even here, proven fraud touches a vanishing sliver of the vote. What new voting rules would cost →

proven cases, 1982–2025 (11 criminal convictions)

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North Dakota has no voter registration

5.18

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

of 51 by per-ballot rate · 0 noncitizen cases

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

Petition fraud

Double voting

North Dakota cases by year the case concluded, 2000–2025 (12 total). 2025 is incomplete.

Every North Dakota case in the database

11 criminal conviction · 1 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
2018	Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2017	Double voting	Diversion program	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
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