Current:Home > InvestAn Iowa woman is sentenced in a ballot box stuffing scheme that supported husband’s campaign -×
An Iowa woman is sentenced in a ballot box stuffing scheme that supported husband’s campaign
View
Date:2025-04-14 01:10:59
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — 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.
No one testified to seeing Kim Taylor personally sign any of the documents, but her presence in each voter’s home when 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.
veryGood! (3525)
Related
- Senate begins final push to expand Social Security benefits for millions of people
- Thrilling performances in swimming relays earn Team USA medals — including first gold
- Shop the Best Nordstrom Anniversary Sale 2024 Home Deals: Le Creuset, Parachute, Viking & More
- Peyton Manning, Kelly Clarkson should have been benched as opening ceremony co-hosts
- Hackers hit Rhode Island benefits system in major cyberattack. Personal data could be released soon
- Inter Miami vs. Puebla live updates: How to watch Leagues Cup tournament games Saturday
- Oldest zoo in the US finds new ways to flourish. See how it is making its mark.
- Bette Midler talks 'Mamma Mia!' moment in new movie: 'What have we done?'
- EU countries double down on a halt to Syrian asylum claims but will not yet send people back
- Archery could be a party in Paris Olympics, and American Brady Ellison is all for it
Ranking
- Tarte Shape Tape Concealer Sells Once Every 4 Seconds: Get 50% Off Before It's Gone
- US men’s basketball team rolls past Serbia 110-84 in opening game at the Paris Olympics
- Ryan Reynolds Confirms Sex of His and Blake Lively’s 4th Baby
- Judge denies bid to move trial of ex-officer out of Philadelphia due to coverage, protests
- Nevada attorney general revives 2020 fake electors case
- Focused amid the gunfire, an AP photographer captures another perspective of attack on Trump
- 2024 Olympian Sha'Carri Richardson’s Nails Deserve Their Own Gold Medal
- 2024 Olympian Sha'Carri Richardson’s Nails Deserve Their Own Gold Medal
Recommendation
Backstage at New York's Jingle Ball with Jimmy Fallon, 'Queer Eye' and Meghan Trainor
How photographer Frank Stewart captured the culture of jazz, church and Black life in the US
Chiefs' Travis Kelce in his 'sanctuary' preparing for Super Bowl three-peat quest
Spoilers! Let's discuss those epic 'Deadpool & Wolverine' cameos and ending
Questlove charts 50 years of SNL musical hits (and misses)
'Futurama' Season 12: Premiere date, episode schedule, where to watch
A Guide to Vice President Kamala Harris’ Family
Kamala Harris’s Environmental and Climate Record, in Her Own Words