PHOENIX — Arizona's primary election is a week away and people are still wondering if illegal voting is impacting elections.
12 News obtained a list of every illegal voting prosecution by the Arizona Attorney General's Office since 2010 ... all 22 of them.
Those 22 are all cases of double voting, or people voting in two different states in the same election.
According to court documents, most were cases of people with two residences who thought they could vote in two states.
Many of those cases also involve people registered to vote in both Arizona and Colorado, though the Attorney General's office isn't sure why Colorado is so popular.
As for punishment, the most common punishment is a fine of about $4,500 and no jail or probation time, though some cases did result in a sentence of two years probation. One case resulted in a $10,000 fine.
Arizona State University professor Dr. David Wells studied illegal voting across Arizona and found widespread fraud is almost nonexistent.
"Even if you had an intention, can you swing an election?" Wells said. "I mean it's so hard to recruit enough people to actually swing an election. So few of our elections are decided by just a few votes."
The Arizona Attorney General's Office does not track any illegal voting cases that may be prosecuted at the county level, but Secretary of State Michele Reagan said on Sunday Square Off with Brahm Resnik that illegal voting is only a "small problem".
So we can verify illegal voting is not a widespread issue or one that's large enough to impact an election result.