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West Virginia: proven election fraud

The Heritage Foundation's database lists 36 proven election-fraud cases in West Virginia since 1982, 36 of them since 2000, most commonly vote buying. Against 1,210,415 registered voters, the since-2000 cases equal 0.0030% of the rolls, or 1 in 34k registered voters. Per ballot, that is 7.12 cases per million presidential votes since 2000: 4.5× the national rate, #1 of 51. Even here, proven fraud touches a vanishing sliver of the vote. What new voting rules would cost →

proven cases, 1982–2025 (32 criminal convictions)

0.0030%

of registered voters: 36 cases since 2000 vs 1,210,415 registered voters (2024)

7.12

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

of 51 by per-ballot rate · 0 noncitizen cases

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

Vote buying

Double voting

False registrations

Absentee / mail ballot fraud

Election overturned

Felon voting

Nonresident voting

Petition fraud

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

Every West Virginia case in the database

32 criminal conviction · 4 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
2025	Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2024	False registration, Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2023	Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2023	Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2023	Double voting	Diversion program	source
2023	Absentee fraud, Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2023	Absentee fraud, Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2023	Felon voting	Criminal conviction	source
2023	Nonresident voting	Diversion program	source
2022	Petition fraud	Criminal conviction	source
2021	Petition fraud	Diversion program	source
2021	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2021	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2020	Nonresident voting	Criminal conviction	source
2019	False registration	Diversion program	source
2018	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2017	Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2017	Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2013	False registration	Criminal conviction	source
2012	Absentee fraud, Election overturned Donald Whitten	Criminal conviction	source
2012	Absentee fraud, Election overturned Jerry Bowman	Criminal conviction	source
2012	Absentee fraud, Election overturned Thomas Ramey	Criminal conviction	source
2010	Double voting	Criminal conviction	source
2006	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2006	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2006	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2006	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2006	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2006	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2006	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2005	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2005	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2005	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2005	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2004	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source
2004	Vote buying	Criminal conviction	source

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