Grand Canyon Times

More than 20 people have been found guilty of election or voter fraud in Arizona 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 Mohave, Maricopa and Pima 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 Arizona Voter Fraud Since 2000

Name	Type of Case	Type of Fraud
David Milton Culberson	Criminal Conviction	Duplicate voting
Adam Bruce Hallin	Criminal Conviction	Duplicate voting
John David Hamrick	Criminal Conviction	Duplicate voting
Gerald Bernard Sack	Criminal Conviction	Duplicate voting
Steven Jeffrey Streeter	Criminal Conviction	Duplicate voting
Jay Sherill Thompson	Criminal Conviction	Duplicate voting
Franklin West Turner	Criminal Conviction	Duplicate voting
Regina Kay Beaupre	Criminal Conviction	Duplicate voting
Jeffery Worth Hitchcock	Criminal Conviction	Duplicate voting
Debi Gangaware Fender	Criminal Conviction	Duplicate voting
Milton Fender	Criminal Conviction	Duplicate voting
Shanna Katz Kattari	Criminal Conviction	Duplicate voting
Edward Thomas Nichols	Criminal Conviction	Duplicate voting
Curtis Vernon Pyeatt	Criminal Conviction	Ineligible voting
Tom Lee West	Criminal Conviction	Ineligible voting
Sheriff Michael David Hays	Criminal Conviction	False registrations
Gina Thai Canova	Criminal Conviction	False registrations
Peter Canova	Criminal Conviction	False registrations
Rodney Paul Jones	Criminal Conviction	Duplicate voting
John Marotta	Criminal Conviction	Duplicate voting
Karen Marshall	Criminal Conviction	Duplicate voting
James Marshall	Criminal Conviction	Duplicate voting

Source: Heritage Foundation