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Virginia: proven election fraud

The Heritage Foundation's database lists 36 proven election-fraud cases in Virginia since 1982, 36 of them since 2000, most commonly absentee fraud. Against 6,380,686 registered voters, the since-2000 cases equal 0.00056% of the rolls, or 1 in 177k registered voters. Per ballot, that is 1.36 cases per million presidential votes since 2000: 0.9× the national rate (below average), #28 of 51. Even here, proven fraud touches a vanishing sliver of the vote. What new voting rules would cost →

proven cases, 1982–2025 (35 criminal convictions)

0.00056%

of registered voters: 36 cases since 2000 vs 6,380,686 registered voters (2024)

1.36

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

#28

of 51 by per-ballot rate · 0 noncitizen cases

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

Absentee / mail ballot fraud

Vote buying

Petition fraud

False registrations

Felon voting

Double voting

Miscellaneous

Virginia cases by year the case concluded, 2000–2025 (36 total). 2025 is incomplete.

Noncitizen audit: 2024 removals (EO 35)

About 1,600 removed as possible noncitizens; a court found some were citizens. No official count of ballots cast. All state audits →

Every Virginia case in the database

35 criminal conviction · 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
2022	Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2021	Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2021	Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2020	Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2020	Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2018	Petition fraud	Judicial finding	source
2018	Absentee fraud	Criminal conviction	Case Number: CR19028447-00
2018	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2017	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2017	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2016	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2016	Misc.	Criminal conviction	source
2014	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	Case Number: GC15007564-00
2014	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	Case Number: GC15007564-00
2013	Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2013	Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	Augusta County Circuit Court,Cases CR13000083-00,CR13000084-
2012	Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2012	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2012	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2011	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2010	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2010	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2007	Absentee fraud, Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2007	Absentee fraud, Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2007	Absentee fraud, Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2007	Absentee fraud, Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2007	Absentee fraud, Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2007	Absentee fraud, Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2007	Absentee fraud, Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2007	Absentee fraud, Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2007	Absentee fraud, Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2007	Absentee fraud, Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2007	Absentee fraud, Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2007	Absentee fraud, Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2007	Absentee fraud, Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2007	Absentee fraud, Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source

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