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Pennsylvania: proven election fraud

The Heritage Foundation's database lists 45 proven election-fraud cases in Pennsylvania since 1982, 38 of them since 2000, most commonly absentee fraud. Against 9,175,133 registered voters, the since-2000 cases equal 0.00041% of the rolls, or 1 in 241k registered voters. Per ballot, that is 0.89 cases per million presidential votes since 2000: 0.6× the national rate (below average), #33 of 51. Even here, proven fraud touches a vanishing sliver of the vote. What new voting rules would cost →

proven cases, 1982–2025 (41 criminal convictions)

0.00041%

of registered voters: 38 cases since 2000 vs 9,175,133 registered voters (2024)

0.89

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

#33

of 51 by per-ballot rate · 0 noncitizen cases

Pennsylvania 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

Miscellaneous

Altering the vote count

Election overturned

Other ineligible voting

Nonresident voting

Petition fraud

Double voting

Pennsylvania cases by year the case concluded, 2000–2025 (38 total). 2025 is incomplete.

Noncitizen audit: 2026 Auditor General review

Records checked	200,000
Noncitizens found registered	1 (0.00050% of records)

One noncitizen application among 200,000+ motor-voter transactions. All state audits →

Every Pennsylvania case in the database

41 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
2025	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2025	Absentee fraud, False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2025	Absentee fraud, False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2025	Absentee fraud, False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2024	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2024	Absentee fraud, False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2022	Altering count	Criminal conviction	source
2022	Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2022	Absentee fraud, Impersonation	Criminal conviction	source
2022	Absentee fraud, Impersonation	Diversion program	source
2022	Absentee fraud, Impersonation	Criminal conviction	source
2021	Altering count	Criminal conviction	source
2021	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2021	Absentee fraud, Impersonation	Criminal conviction	source
2021	Impersonation	Criminal conviction	source
2019	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2018	Misc.	Criminal conviction	source
2018	Misc.	Diversion program	source
2018	Misc.	Criminal conviction	source
2018	Misc.	Criminal conviction	source
2017	False registration	Diversion program	source
2016	Altering count	Criminal conviction	source
2016	Altering count	Criminal conviction	source
2016	Impersonation	Criminal conviction	source
2016	Impersonation	Criminal conviction	source
2016	Impersonation	Criminal conviction	source
2015	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2014	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2012	Nonresident voting	Criminal conviction	source
2010	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2010	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2010	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2010	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2009	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2004	Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2004	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2003	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2002	Ineligible voting	Criminal conviction	source
1999	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
1998	Misc.	Criminal conviction	source
1998	Misc.	Criminal conviction	source
1998	Misc.	Criminal conviction	source
1994	Absentee fraud, Election overturned 1993 Philadelphia Special Election	Judicial finding	source
1994	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
1994	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source

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