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.
House arrest is hardly a punishment
Well, there is 4 months in prison and a (negligible) fine, too.
Still a very slap on the wrist penalty for what should be a very severe crime, but I suppose in this case there weren’t exactly “damages” since her husband lost the election anyways.
Especially compared to the lady in Texas that got 5 years for voting provisionally in good faith as instructed by a poll worker. I know it eventually got overturned, but it took years and I believe she did spend real time in prison.
4 months in jail followed by 4 months house arrest and $2500 fine. Still tiny for 54 counts of voter fraud.