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New York: proven election fraud

The Heritage Foundation's database lists 28 proven election-fraud cases in New York since 1982, 26 of them since 2000, most commonly absentee fraud. Against 13,579,416 registered voters, the since-2000 cases equal 0.00019% of the rolls, or 1 in 522k registered voters. Per ballot, that is 0.48 cases per million presidential votes since 2000: 0.3× the national rate (below average), #44 of 51. Even here, proven fraud touches a vanishing sliver of the vote. What new voting rules would cost →

proven cases, 1982–2025 (25 criminal convictions)

0.00019%

of registered voters: 26 cases since 2000 vs 13,579,416 registered voters (2024)

0.48

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

#44

of 51 by per-ballot rate · 0 noncitizen cases

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

Absentee / mail ballot fraud

Petition fraud

False registrations

Double voting

Miscellaneous

Illegal “assistance” at polls

Impersonation at the polls

New York cases by year the case concluded, 2000–2025 (26 total). 2025 is incomplete.

Every New York case in the database

25 criminal conviction · 2 civil penalty · 1 official 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
2023	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2023	Illegal assistance	Civil penalty	source
2023	Illegal assistance	Civil penalty	source
2022	Absentee fraud, Impersonation	Criminal conviction	source
2018	Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2018	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2017	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2017	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2017	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2016	Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2016	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2016	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2016	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2015	Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2014	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2014	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2014	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2014	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2014	Misc.	Official finding	source
2013	Misc.	Criminal conviction	source
2012	Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2011	Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2009	Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2008	Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2006	Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2006	Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
1999	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
1983	False registration	Criminal conviction	source

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