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Ohio: proven election fraud

The Heritage Foundation's database lists 63 proven election-fraud cases in Ohio since 1982, 63 of them since 2000, most commonly false registration. Against 8,074,098 registered voters, the since-2000 cases equal 0.00078% of the rolls, or 1 in 128k registered voters. Per ballot, that is 1.62 cases per million presidential votes since 2000: about the national rate, #22 of 51. Even here, proven fraud touches a vanishing sliver of the vote. What new voting rules would cost →

proven cases, 1982–2025 (59 criminal convictions)

0.00078%

of registered voters: 63 cases since 2000 vs 8,074,098 registered voters (2024)

1.62

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

#22

of 51 by per-ballot rate · 8 noncitizen cases

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

False registrations

Miscellaneous

Double voting

Absentee / mail ballot fraud

Petition fraud

Noncitizen voting

Illegal “assistance” at polls

Vote buying

Impersonation at the polls

Nonresident voting

Ohio cases by year the case concluded, 2000–2025 (63 total). 2025 is incomplete.

Noncitizen audit: 2024 + 2025 referrals

Noncitizens found registered	1,084 (0.0134% of 2024 registered voters)
Of them (or in total), had voted	167 (0.0021%)
Voting window	federal elections 2018–2024

Referred to the state AG and the DOJ; most county prosecutors declined earlier referrals. All state audits →

Every Ohio case in the database

59 criminal conviction · 3 diversion program · 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
2023	Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2023	Absentee fraud, Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2022	Illegal assistance	Criminal conviction	source
2022	Illegal assistance	Criminal conviction	source
2021	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2021	Absentee fraud, Impersonation	Criminal conviction	source
2019	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2019	Noncitizen voting	Criminal conviction	Case no. 17 CR 005021
2018	False registration	Criminal conviction	Case no. 17 CR 005017
2018	False registration	Criminal conviction	Case no.17 CR 005023
2018	False registration	Criminal conviction	Case no. 17 CR 005019
2018	Noncitizen voting	Criminal conviction	Case no. 17 CR 005020
2018	Noncitizen voting	Criminal conviction	Case no.005022
2017	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2017	Noncitizen voting	Criminal conviction	source
2017	Noncitizen voting	Criminal conviction	source
2017	Noncitizen voting	Criminal conviction	source
2015	Nonresident voting	Judicial finding	source
2014	Noncitizen voting	Criminal conviction	source
2014	Noncitizen voting	Criminal conviction	source
2013	Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2013	Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2013	Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2013	Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2013	Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2013	Absentee fraud, Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2013	False registration	Diversion program	source
2013	Absentee fraud	Diversion program	source
2013	Absentee fraud	Diversion program	source
2012	Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2012	Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2012	Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2012	Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2011	Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2011	Absentee fraud, Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2010	Vote buying, Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2009	Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2009	Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2009	Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2009	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2009	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2009	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2009	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2009	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2009	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2009	Misc.	Criminal conviction	source
2008	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2008	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2008	Misc.	Criminal conviction	source
2008	Misc.	Criminal conviction	source
2008	Misc.	Criminal conviction	source
2007	Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2007	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2007	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2007	Misc.	Criminal conviction	source
2007	Misc.	Criminal conviction	source
2007	Misc.	Criminal conviction	source
2007	Misc.	Criminal conviction	source
2007	Misc.	Criminal conviction	source
2007	Misc.	Criminal conviction	source
2005	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2000	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2000	Absentee fraud, False registration	Criminal conviction	source

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