The wife of a northwestern Iowa county supervisor has been sentenced to four months in jail in a scheme to stuff the ballot box to support her husband’s unsuccessful campaign for Congress.

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.

  • rusticus@lemm.ee
    92·
    7 months ago

    Had to spend 10 seconds scanning article for the word “Republican”. Was not disappointed.

    • dan1101@lemm.ee
      27·
      7 months ago

      So you mean the people shouting the loudest about election fraud are the same people committing the election fraud??

      • jonne@infosec.pub
        7·
        7 months ago

        It’s all about creating a permission structure. Accuse the other side of doing what you want to do. If they’re cheating, it means we must do the same to even the playing field. If “ANTIFA” is rioting in the streets, that means using force to break into the Capitol is ok too.