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Nearly 30 people have been found guilty of election or voter fraud in North Carolina 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 Haywood, Cumberland, Caldwell, Cleveland and Randolph 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 North Carolina Voter Fraud Since 2000

Name	Type of Case	Type of Fraud
Dewey Gidcumb	Criminal conviction	Duplicate voting
Edward Charles Green	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Dalton Shane Smith	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Former Charlotte Mayor Patrick Cannon	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Pasco Parker	Criminal conviction	Duplicate voting
Samuel Walter Sylvester IV	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Verna Roehm	Criminal conviction	Fraudulent use of absentee ballots
Horatio Johnson	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Anita and Valerie Moore	Criminal conviction	Buying votes
Wayne Shatley	Criminal conviction	Buying votes
Carlos Hood	Criminal conviction	Buying votes
Ross Banner	Criminal conviction	Buying votes
Joshua Workman	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Robert Dean Hudson	Official finding	Ineligible voting
Robert Lee Youngblood	Criminal conviction	Duplicate voting
Roger Herres	Criminal conviction	Duplicate voting, false registrations
Alessandro Cannizzaro	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Roberto Hernandez-Cuarenta	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Jose Cruz Solano-Rodriguez	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Ramon Esteban Paez-Jerez	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Jose Jaime Ramiro-Torres	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Dieudonne Soifils	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Guadalupe Espinosa-Pena	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Maria Rufina Castillo-Boswell	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Dora Maybe Damata-Rodriguez	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Juan Francisco Landeros-Mireles	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Hyo Suk George	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Merious Jean	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting
Daniel Tadeusz Romanowski	Criminal conviction	Ineligible voting

Source: Heritage Foundation