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Nevada: proven election fraud

The Heritage Foundation's database lists 11 proven election-fraud cases in Nevada since 1982, 11 of them since 2000, most commonly false registration. Against 2,256,275 registered voters, the since-2000 cases equal 0.00049% of the rolls, or 1 in 205k registered voters. Per ballot, that is 1.48 cases per million presidential votes since 2000: about the national rate, #24 of 51. Even here, proven fraud touches a vanishing sliver of the vote. What new voting rules would cost →

proven cases, 1982–2025 (10 criminal convictions)

0.00049%

of registered voters: 11 cases since 2000 vs 2,256,275 registered voters (2024)

1.48

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

#24

of 51 by per-ballot rate · 1 noncitizen case

Nevada 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

Vote buying

Nevada cases by year the case concluded, 2000–2025 (11 total). 2025 is incomplete.

Every Nevada case in the database

10 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
2021	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2021	Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2021	Absentee fraud, Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2018	Petition fraud	Diversion program	source
2017	Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2016	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2014	False registration, Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2014	False registration, Noncitizen voting	Criminal conviction	source
2013	Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2011	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2011	False registration	Criminal conviction	source

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