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Texas: proven election fraud

The Heritage Foundation's database lists 113 proven election-fraud cases in Texas since 1982, 113 of them since 2000, most commonly absentee fraud. Against 18,623,931 registered voters, the since-2000 cases equal 0.00061% of the rolls, or 1 in 165k registered voters. Per ballot, that is 1.84 cases per million presidential votes since 2000: 1.2× the national rate, #21 of 51. Even here, proven fraud touches a vanishing sliver of the vote. What new voting rules would cost →

113

proven cases, 1982–2025 (75 criminal convictions)

0.00061%

of registered voters: 113 cases since 2000 vs 18,623,931 registered voters (2024)

1.84

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

#21

of 51 by per-ballot rate · 4 noncitizen cases

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

Absentee / mail ballot fraud

False registrations

Felon voting

Impersonation at the polls

Illegal “assistance” at polls

Election overturned

Vote buying

Noncitizen voting

Miscellaneous

Double voting

Petition fraud

Nonresident voting

Other ineligible voting

Texas cases by year the case concluded, 2000–2025 (113 total). 2025 is incomplete.

Noncitizen audit: 2025–26 SAVE check

Records checked

18,000,000

2,724 flagged; 578 later proved citizenship; 117 referred for investigation. The 2024 claim of 6,500 removals included people who didn't answer mail; 581 were removed as noncitizens. All state audits →

Every Texas case in the database

75 criminal conviction · 34 diversion program · 4 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
2024	Absentee fraud, False registration	Judicial finding	source
2024	False registration, Impersonation	Criminal conviction	source
2022	False registration, Ineligible voting	Criminal conviction	source
2022	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2022	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2022	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2022	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2022	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2022	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2019	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2018	Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2018	Election overturned City of Mission, TX	Judicial finding	source
2018	Election overturned Kaufman County, TX	Judicial finding	source
2018	Election overturned Kleberg County, TX	Judicial finding	source
2018	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2018	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2018	Illegal assistance	Criminal conviction	source
2018	Noncitizen voting	Criminal conviction	source
2018	Noncitizen voting	Criminal conviction	source
2017	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2017	Impersonation	Criminal conviction	source
2017	Impersonation	Criminal conviction	source
2017	Felon voting, Impersonation	Criminal conviction	source
2017	Noncitizen voting	Criminal conviction	source
2017	Misc.	Criminal conviction	source
2016	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2016	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2015	Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2015	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2015	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2015	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2015	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2015	False registration	Diversion program	source
2015	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2015	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2015	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2015	Absentee fraud	Diversion program	source
2015	Illegal assistance	Diversion program	source
2015	Illegal assistance	Criminal conviction	source
2015	Illegal assistance	Criminal conviction	source
2015	Illegal assistance	Diversion program	source
2015	Impersonation	Diversion program	source
2015	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2015	Nonresident voting	Diversion program	source
2014	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2014	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2014	Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2014	False registration, Election overturned Adrian Heath	Criminal conviction	source
2014	False registration, Election overturned Roberta Cook	Criminal conviction	source
2014	False registration, Election overturned Sybil Doyle	Criminal conviction	source
2014	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2013	Double voting, Impersonation	Criminal conviction	source
2013	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2013	False registration	Diversion program	source
2013	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2013	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2013	Illegal assistance	Criminal conviction	source
2013	Felon voting	Diversion program	source
2013	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	Case no. 2013-DCR-00957
2012	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2012	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2012	False registration	Criminal conviction	Case No. 2-11-416 (Information obtained from the Office of t
2012	Absentee fraud	Diversion program	source
2012	Illegal assistance	Diversion program	source
2012	Noncitizen voting	Diversion program	source
2012	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	Case No. CR-1914-12-E (Information obtained from the Office
2012	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	Case No. 09-090-10115 CR (Information obtained from the Offi
2011	Impersonation	Criminal conviction	source
2011	Impersonation	Criminal conviction	source
2011	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2011	Nonresident voting	Diversion program	source
2010	False registration	Diversion program	source
2010	False registration	Diversion program	source
2010	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2010	Absentee fraud	Diversion program	source
2010	Absentee fraud	Diversion program	source
2010	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2010	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2010	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2010	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2010	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	Case No. 09-09-10117 CR (Information obtained from the Offic
2010	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2009	Absentee fraud, False registration	Diversion program	source
2009	Absentee fraud, False registration	Diversion program	source
2009	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2009	Impersonation	Diversion program	source
2009	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2009	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2009	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2009	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2009	Misc.	Criminal conviction	Case No. M0593-09 (Information obtained from the Office of t
2008	Double voting	Diversion program	source
2008	Absentee fraud	Diversion program	source
2008	Absentee fraud	Diversion program	source
2008	Absentee fraud	Diversion program	source
2008	Absentee fraud	Diversion program	source
2008	Absentee fraud	Diversion program	Case No. 89,298 (Information obtained from the Office of the
2008	Absentee fraud	Diversion program	source
2008	Misc.	Diversion program	Case No. 08-8-8967 CR (Information obtained from the Office
2007	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2007	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2006	Absentee fraud	Diversion program	source
2006	Absentee fraud	Diversion program	Case No. 05-CR-9805-4 (Information obtained from the Office
2006	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	Case No. 05-CR-9808-3 (Information obtained from the Office
2006	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2006	Absentee fraud	Diversion program	source
2006	Absentee fraud	Diversion program	source
2006	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2006	Absentee fraud	Diversion program	Case No. 05-CR-9806-4 (Information obtained from the Office
2006	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	bit.ly/2fcgEMG,bit.ly/2f26dIi
2006	Illegal assistance	Diversion program	source
2005	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	Case No. 013449 (Information obtained from the Office of the
2005	Absentee fraud	Diversion program	source

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