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Latest Election Fraud Cases Underscore Importance of Election Integrity

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The Heritage Foundation's Election Fraud Database has added more proven cases of impersonation, absentee ballot fraud, bribery, and illegal vote trafficking, demonstrating the many ways bad actors try to steal elections. (Photo: lakshmiprasad, iStock/Getty Images)

With the latest cases of impersonation, registration fraud, absentee ballot fraud, bribery, and illegal vote trafficking added to The Heritage Foundation’s Election Fraud Database, the database now contains 1,365 proven instances of election fraud. These cases demonstrate the wide variety of ways in which bad actors set out to submit fraudulent ballots or steal elections.

The database is not an exhaustive or comprehensive list of all election fraud in the states. Rather, it presents a sampling of recent, proven instances of election fraud from across the country that is intended to highlight the many ways in which fraud has been committed.

Below are a few of the latest cases we’ve added:

In addition, the sheriff in Yuma County, Arizona, where Fuentes and Juarez orchestrated their absentee ballot fraud, recently issued a press release stating he has another 16 open “voting/registration” cases that are currently being investigated.

The problems, unfortunately, don’t end there. The Public Interest Legal Foundation recently published a report stating that New Jersey could potentially have over 8,000 duplicate registrations on its voter rolls. Such errors in voter registration lists that are undetected by election officials allow fraud to occur by anyone who wants to take advantage of those errors, as happened in the Compton, California, case discussed above.

Voting is one of the most fundamental parts of a representative government. Citizens who participate in elections should be able to trust the fairness and integrity of the electoral process and should be able to trust that ineligible voters and fraudsters cannot thwart the will of the people.

Ensuring fair and free elections is important to all Americans, and state legislatures should work to make that happen by implementing the kinds of election reforms that The Heritage Foundation has recommended in its Election Integrity Scorecard. But, as we note in the scorecard, “Even the best laws are not worth much if responsible officials do not enforce them rigorously. It is up to the citizens of each state to make sure that their elected and appointed public officials do just that.”

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