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The conservative Heritage Foundation publishes an incomplete database of electoral fraud cases brought by prosecutors since 1979. [39] [40] [41] As of November 2023, there were 1,465 proven cases of election fraud listed in 44 years, an average of 33 cases per year. This represents a tiny fraction of total votes.
Investigators broke open a 2022 vote-buying case in Kentucky's Monroe County through a tip filed with the attorney general's election fraud hotline, a key tool the state uses to keep elections clean.
[60] [87] Rick Hasen, an election law expert at the University of California, Irvine, and Paul Smith, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, questioned whether Texas has standing to bring the lawsuit and said the Supreme Court is unlikely to take up the case. [60] University of Texas law professor Stephen Vladeck remarked, "It looks ...
Mason committed tax fraud by inflating returns for her clients as a tax preparer, a crime for which she was arrested and pled guilty in 2011 and was sentenced in 2012. She was released after completing her sentence in 2016, and decided to vote in the 2016 election after being encouraged by her mother. [ 5 ]
The searches came amid a broader push by Paxton to prosecute election fraud — a campaign that in 2023 spent $2.3 million to prosecute just four cases, according to the Houston Chronicle.
The case against Taulbee, McDonald and Noble was part of a larger investigation of fraud involving crop insurance in recent years that prosecutors called “a severe and pervasive scourge” in ...
Texas argued it had standing to sue to prevent its votes from becoming "diluted". [29] Texas instead alleged that "fraud becomes undetectable" because "unlawful actions of election officials effectively destroy the evidence". Whether "voters committed fraud" was not the "constitutional issue" in this case, according to Texas.
The Fulton County case remains mired in controversy and court challenges, in part due to Willis’s affair with the top prosecutor she tapped for the sprawling racketeering case, Nathan Wade.