The wife of an Iowa county supervisor was sentenced Monday to four months in jail after being convicted in a scheme to stuff the ballot box to support her husband’s unsuccessful campaign for a congressional seat.

Kim Taylor also was ordered to serve four months’ home confinement following her release from prison and to pay $5,200, KTIV-TV reports.

Prosecutors said Taylor, a Vietnam native who was convicted in November of 52 counts related to voter fraud, approached numerous voters of Vietnamese heritage with limited English comprehension and filled out and signed election forms and ballots on behalf of them and their English-speaking children.

They said the scheme was designed to help her husband, Jeremy Taylor, a former Iowa House member, who finished a distant third in the 2020 race for the Republican nomination to run for Iowa’s 4th District congressional seat. Despite that loss, he ultimately won election to the Woodbury County Board of Supervisors that fall.

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    8 months ago

    That sounds exactly the type of shit I’d expect from Sioux City. Trashiest “city” in the whole state.

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      8 months ago

      My buddy JD moved back to Iowa a few years ago from Seattle to run in Iowa 3 against Steve King, as well as to take care of his aging parents. He got as close as any Dem has to winning there, but couldn’t break through the scummy behavior. His campaign tourbus was called “Souix City Sue.”