The wife of a Republican county supervisor in Iowa was sentenced on Monday after she was convicted on more than 50 counts of voter fraud to help her husband’s failed congressional campaign.
Kim Taylor, the wife of Woodbury County Supervisor Jeremy Taylor, received an eight-month sentence for her role in the voter fraud scheme.
Four months will be served in prison and four months will be home confinement after her release. She will also have two years of supervised release and was ordered to pay $5,200, KTIV reports.
Guidelines call for a sentence of 18-24 months but the judge overseeing the case said that was not justified in this instance before handing down the eight month sentence. KTIV noted that the sentence is not only a fraction of the maximum sentence, but much less than what the prosecutors had asked for.
Taylor, a Vietnam native, was convicted of 52 counts related to voter fraud in November.
Prosecutors say Taylor took advantage of other Vietnamese immigrants, with limited comprehension of the English Language, by illegally filling out election forms and ballots on their behalf.
This was all to help her husband win the GOP primary for Iowa’s 4th congressional.
Jeremy Taylor ended up finishing third with about 8% of the vote in that contest. But, he ran for Woodbury County Supervisor in the 2020 general election and won.
Jeremy Taylor has not been charged with a crime, but has been named as an unindicted co-conspirator.
