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Tennessee: proven election fraud

The Heritage Foundation's database lists 26 proven election-fraud cases in Tennessee since 1982, 26 of them since 2000, most commonly false registration. Against 4,825,601 registered voters, the since-2000 cases equal 0.00054% of the rolls, or 1 in 186k registered voters. Per ballot, that is 1.43 cases per million presidential votes since 2000: about the national rate, #26 of 51. Even here, proven fraud touches a vanishing sliver of the vote. What new voting rules would cost →

proven cases, 1982–2025 (24 criminal convictions)

0.00054%

of registered voters: 26 cases since 2000 vs 4,825,601 registered voters (2024)

1.43

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

#26

of 51 by per-ballot rate · 0 noncitizen cases

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

False registrations

Felon voting

Miscellaneous

Vote buying

Nonresident voting

Impersonation at the polls

Illegal “assistance” at polls

Double voting

Absentee / mail ballot fraud

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

Every Tennessee case in the database

24 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
2024	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2024	False registration, Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2024	False registration, Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2024	False registration, Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2024	False registration, Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2024	False registration, Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2024	False registration, Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2024	False registration, Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2024	False registration, Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2024	False registration, Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2024	False registration, Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2023	Absentee fraud, Double voting	Diversion program	source
2022	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2019	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2019	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2018	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2014	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2012	Nonresident voting	Criminal conviction	source
2011	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2009	False registration, Nonresident voting	Criminal conviction	source
2007	Illegal assistance	Diversion program	source
2007	Misc.	Criminal conviction	source
2007	Misc.	Criminal conviction	source
2007	Misc.	Criminal conviction	source
2005	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2005	Impersonation	Criminal conviction	source

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