Taylor found guilty on all 52 counts of voter fraud

[cigaretteman]

SIOUX CITY — A federal jury has found Kim Taylor guilty on 52 counts of voter fraud.
The jury returned its verdict Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Sioux City.

Taylor was charged with 52 counts of voting-related fraud accusing her of conducting a scheme in which she fraudulently filled out voting forms and ballots on behalf of numerous Vietnamese voters, many of whom have limited English comprehension. Taylor was accused of filling out forms and having voters sign on behalf of children and grandchildren without fully explaining or interpreting the forms or telling them they needed permission before signing papers on another person's behalf.




Pat Gill, Woodbury County Auditor, speaks at a press conference held Friday, Jan. 13, 2023, at the Woodbury County Courthouse in Sioux City, Iowa. Gill was addressing his office's role in uncovering alleged election fraud in recent elections. Kim Phuong Taylor, 49, was arrested Thursday and pleaded not guilty to 26 counts of providing false information in registering and voting, three counts of fraudulent registration and 23 counts of fraudulent voting. She is the wife of Woodbury County Supervisor Jeremy Taylor.
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Throughout six days of trial, prosecutors said Taylor, who was born in Vietnam, did so in order to amass votes for her husband, Jeremy Taylor, a Republican who ran unsuccessfully for his party's nomination for a U.S. House seat in the 2020 primary and was elected to the Woodbury County Board of Supervisors that fall. Jeremy Taylor has not been charged, but has been named as an unindicted co-conspirator.

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This is a breaking news story. Check siouxcityjournal.com for updates.

 

[Finance85]

Wow. There's actually proven voter fraud.

 

[Hawki97]

Seems like a smart woman that makes a lot of good choices and surrounds herself with only the best people.

 

[ft254]

Voting fraud has always been a problem and always will be. Humans are human and cheaters cheat.

Were there tens of millions that decided the election? No. Grow up.

 

[dgordo]

Kim Taylor sentenced to prison for voter fraud scheme in Iowa​

By Kim BellwareApril 3, 2024 at 2:59 p.m. EDT
An Iowa woman who sought to boost her husband’s unsuccessful congressional bid in 2020 through a voter fraud scheme was sentenced by a federal judge to four months in prison Monday in a rare case of fraudulent voting.
Kim Taylor, 50, was convicted by a federal jury in November on 52 counts including fraudulent voting and providing false information in registering and voting.
During the 2020 primary and general elections, federal prosecutors said, Taylor filled out voter registrations and absentee ballots for members of the Vietnamese community under the guise of offering translation help. Taylor is of Vietnamese descent, and Iowa prohibits election material, including ballots, from being printed in any language but English.
Prosecutors said Taylor used the ballots to fraudulently generate votes for husband Jeremy Taylor’s unsuccessful bid in the Republican primary for a seat in Iowa’s 4th Congressional District. The month after his primary loss, he successfully ran for Woodbury County Supervisor and still holds the position.
Jeremy Taylor, a former Iowa state legislator, was identified in court documents as an unindicted co-conspirator but was not charged with a crime.
Kim Taylor, who could have faced a maximum sentence of five years in prison per count, must serve four months of home confinement following her prison release plus two years of probation, as well as cover $5,200 in court costs.
“On behalf of Ms. Taylor and her family, we’re pleased with the sentencing result,” defense attorney F. Montgomery Brown told The Washington Post on Wednesday.
Brown had sought a longer home confinement term in lieu of prison and said the court was given “extensive” mitigating background information on Taylor, including “a considerable body of letters of support.”
Chief U.S. District Judge Leonard Strandacknowledged as part of his sentencing decision that Taylor had no prior criminal record and was the primary caretaker to her and her husband’s six children and her elderly mother.
“It does undermine confidence in the voting process,” Strand said of Taylor’s crimes, according to the Sioux City Journal. “Certainly votes were cast that would not have been cast, but for Ms. Taylor’s conduct.”
Eliza Sweren-Becker, senior counsel in the Voting Rights and Elections Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, said that in general, instances of fraud related to elections are exceedingly rare, largely because of the strength of voter integrity rules.
“Instances of voter impersonation are rarer than being struck by lightning,” Sweren-Becker told The Post.
In the landscape of voter fraud prosecutions, Sweren-Becker said, it’s also important to note who is being prosecuted and for what offense, citing Florida’s recent spate of arrests of felons who cast ballots amid uncertainty about whether they were qualified to vote.
“One of the things we’ve seen in unjust prosecutions of people in Florida is that they’ve been prosecuted regardless of whether they knew they weren’t allowed to vote,” Sweren-Becker said. “Intent is incredibly important.”
The typical prosecutions the Brennan Center has tracked in recent years do not involve people working on behalf of a candidate but rather ordinary people who made mistakes as they attempted to “sincerely assist voters,” she said.
“Those honest mistakes shouldn’t be the subject of prosecutions,” Sweren-Becker added.
She cited the case of Crystal Mason, a Texas woman whose five-year sentence on a charge of illegally voting in 2016 was overturned by an appeals court last week. Mason, who was on supervised release at the time for a tax fraud conviction, filed a provisional ballot in the 2016 election, unaware she was ineligible. The ballot was not counted.
“Those are the kinds of unfair, unjust prosecutions related to elections that we’ve seen recently and are quite concerning,” Sweren-Becker said.

 

[artradley]

Wow. There's actually proven voter fraud.

Republicans tell us government doesn’t work, and when they get in office they do their best to prove it. Republicans claim there is lots of voter fraud, and do everything they can to prove it.

However, to address your post, of course there is voter fraud.

 

[lucas80]

4 months of watching Netflix at home doesn't seem like a stiff sentence. And, her husband didn't bother to resign, either. How laughable. True it wasn't the election he won that she committed the fraud in, but I cannot imagine Iowa's GOP letting a Dem hold office if their spouse had committed voter fraud

 

[Joes Place]

Wow. There's actually proven voter fraud.

Yep

MORE Republicans!!!!

 

[TJ8869]

4 months of watching Netflix at home doesn't seem like a stiff sentence. And, her husband didn't bother to resign, either. How laughable. True it wasn't the election he won that she committed the fraud in, but I cannot imagine Iowa's GOP letting a Dem hold office if their spouse had committed voter fraud

The four months of home confinement is after she serves four months in prison. But, yeah, that still seems like a pretty light sentence.

 

[Bonerfarts]

More libs rigging elections. Sad day for democracy.

 

[cohawk]

More libs rigging elections. Sad day for democracy.

It was a republican. It usually is a republican.