Minnesota State Wire

More than 120 people have been found guilty of election or voter fraud in Minnesota since the year 2000, according to a Heritage Foundation database that details such cases nationwide.

The locations where voter fraud was committed in the state included Stearns and Kanabec counties, the database shows.

The types of voter fraud identified in the database include ineligible voting, duplicate voting, absentee ballot fraud, the purchasing of votes, impersonation fraud while voting, ballot petition illegalities, altering vote counts and fraudulent registrations.

Nationwide, the analysis uncovered 1,217 instances of voter fraud, including more than 1,000 criminal convictions and 48 civil penalties.

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Proven Instances of Minnesota Voter Fraud Since 2000

Name	Type of Case	Type of Fraud
Max Sanders	Diversion program	Buying votes
Shawn Marie Kaarbo	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Anna Nicole Nelson	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Alfreda Bowman	Diversion program	Ineligible voting
Ryan Richard Halvorson	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Matthew John Kluck	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Michael Patrick McAlpin	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Murdock Francis McLeod Jr.	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Brodhy Hillis Avery	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Lavern Bowman	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Antonio Brown	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Lisa May Burleson	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Elve Williamson	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Amber Neal	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Andrew Schmidt	Criminal conviction	False registrations
Angela White	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Anthony Joseph Kippels	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Brent Cirillo	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Brian Priefer	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Carolyn Land	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Cassidy Schuster	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Catherine Jenkins	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Chad Savoy	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Cheryl Barrett	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Christopher Charles Lawrence	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Christopher Johnson	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Colin Schickling	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Curtis Schneider	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Daniel Wichmann	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Dante Antonio Garcia Jr.	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Deanara Thomas	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Dewey Simmons	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Dominique Bolden	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Donna Carter	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Dustin Ryan	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Gidget Todd	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Haleem Khan Shamid	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Harold Eugene Thompson	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Harvey Poitra	Criminal conviction	False registrations
Hector Molina Perez	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
James Ayers	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
James Moore	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
James Franklin	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
James Kelley	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
James Bond	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Jason Grueneich	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Jeanette Hurt	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Jennifer Johnson	Criminal conviction	False registrations
John Thomas	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Kathleen Hecker	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Katie Denise Moore	Criminal conviction	False registrations
Kenneth Johnson	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Kiara White	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Kim Shaw	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Kimberly Rae Lynch	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Kristina Mossberg	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Kyle Deno	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Lacy Graditi	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Lenzie George	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Marcellette Payne	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Mark Tice	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Matthew Nicholas	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Michael Johnson	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Michael Brazelton	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Michael Shannon O'Connor	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Michael Stephens	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Nakeisha Howard	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Nakisha Jordan	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Paris Carey	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Patrick Getten	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Paul Lampl	Criminal conviction	False registrations
Paula Smith	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Robert Schuele	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Roman Woodard	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Ryan Marsh	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting, false registrations
Sabrina Hall	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Shane James Lyman	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Shannon Moudry	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Sheila Dennis	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Siresa Moore	Criminal conviction	False registrations
Spencer Cistrunk	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Taylor Endres	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Timothy Arsenal	Criminal conviction	False registrations
Todd Tiedemann	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Troy Scott	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Susan Dulogan Walker	Diversion program	Ineligible voting
Vernon Williams	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Vaugh Tojo	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Wayne Applebaum	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Daniel Clark	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
David Hofmann	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Donald Diamond	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Dustin Norring	Criminal conviction	False registrations
Jason Scott Jones	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Khalid Jafar Wilks	Criminal conviction	Miscellaneous
Maurice Brown	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Michael Common	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Monica Duchene	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Nicole Carrington	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Ronnie Ivy	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Sarah Hankins	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Shawn Deatley	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Theresa Barslou	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Wayde Minter	Criminal conviction	False registrations
Willie Sykes	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Joseph Wagner	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Cynthia Clark	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Freda Jahnke	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Jacqueline Perry	Criminal conviction	False registrations
James Keith Lesure	Criminal conviction	False registrations
Jenna Cook	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Jonathan Noyes	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Karen McKinney	Criminal conviction	False registrations
Karl Bennett	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Kerry Kellar	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Kristy Dettle	Criminal conviction	Fraudulent use of absentee ballots
Matthew Hinman	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Raymundo Silva	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Steven Todd Kostohyrz	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Thomas Howard Woodward	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
William Allen Ondracek	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Michelle Marie Landsteiner	Criminal conviction	Fraudulent use of absentee ballots
Jeffrey Spanier	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Larry Reker	Diversion program	Duplicate voting

Source: Heritage Foundation