Is voter fraud a problem in the US?

Short answer: Voter fraud exists but is rare in the United States. Investigations, audits, and court cases across recent election cycles have found only isolated incidents (e.g., a person voting twice, a small batch of improper absentee ballots). These cases are typically caught and prosecuted and have not been shown to alter statewide or national outcomes.

What’s more common than intentional fraud are routine administrative errors (like data-entry mistakes or outdated voter rolls), which are not the same as someone deliberately casting illegal votes. Safeguards—paper ballots or paper backups in most jurisdictions, voter list maintenance, signature/ID checks, chain‑of‑custody rules, and post‑election audits—make large‑scale fraud hard to carry out and likely to be detected.

If you’d like, I can pull specific studies, prosecution data, and audit results for particular years (e.g., 2016–2024) or your state.