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New Mexico: proven election fraud

The Heritage Foundation's database lists 8 proven election-fraud cases in New Mexico since 1982, 7 of them since 2000, most commonly absentee fraud. Against 1,415,984 registered voters, the since-2000 cases equal 0.00049% of the rolls, or 1 in 202k registered voters. Per ballot, that is 1.25 cases per million presidential votes since 2000: 0.8× the national rate (below average), #31 of 51. Even here, proven fraud touches a vanishing sliver of the vote. What new voting rules would cost →

proven cases, 1982–2025 (6 criminal convictions)

0.00049%

of registered voters: 7 cases since 2000 vs 1,415,984 registered voters (2024)

1.25

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

#31

of 51 by per-ballot rate · 0 noncitizen cases

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

Absentee / mail ballot fraud

False registrations

Impersonation at the polls

New Mexico cases by year the case concluded, 2000–2025 (7 total). 2025 is incomplete.

Every New Mexico case in the database

6 criminal conviction · 2 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
2020	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2020	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2015	Impersonation	Diversion program	source
2013	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2012	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2009	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2009	Absentee fraud	Diversion program	source
1998	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source

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