SIOUX CITY, Iowa — The wife of an Iowa county supervisor was sentenced Monday to four months in prison after being convicted in a ballot box-stuffing scheme to support her husband’s failed campaign for a seat in Congress.
Kim Taylor was also ordered to serve four months of house arrest and pay $5,200 after her release from prison, KTIV-TV reports.
Prosecutors said Taylor, a native of Vietnam who was convicted in November of 52 charges related to voter fraud, approached numerous voters of Vietnamese descent with limited understanding of English and filled out and signed election forms and ballots on behalf of them and their English-speaking children .
They said the plan was intended to help her husband, Jeremy Taylor, a former member of the Iowa House, who finished a distant third in the 2020 race for the Republican nomination to run for the congressional seat of Iowa’s 4th District. Despite that loss, he ultimately won election to the Woodbury County Board of Supervisors that fall.
No one testified to seeing Kim Taylor personally sign any of the documents, but her presence in each voter’s home as the forms were filled out was the common thread through the case.
Jeremy Taylor, who met his wife while teaching in Vietnam, has not been charged but has been named as an unindicted co-conspirator.