The wife of an Iowa county supervisor is going to prison after being found guilty of voter fraud for stuffing the ballot box to help her husband.
Kim Taylor, the wife of Woodbury County Supervisor Jeremy Taylor, was in court Monday afternoon and received an eight-month sentence.
According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Taylor ran a scheme to fraudulently generate votes for her husband in the primary election for Iowa's 4th U.S. Congressional District in June 2020.
After Taylor's husband lost in the primary, he successfully ran for Woodbury County Supervisor in the 2020 general election and Taylor again engaged in ballot fraud, causing absentee ballots to be fraudulently requested and cast, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Iowa.
Authorities accused Taylor of submitting or having others submit dozens of voter registrations, absentee ballot request forms, and absentee ballots containing false information; completing and signing voter forms without voters' permission; and telling others that they could sign on behalf of relatives who were not present.
In November, a jury convicted Taylor of 26 counts of providing false information in registering and voting, 23 counts of fraudulent voting and three counts of fraudulent registration. She faced a maximum penalty of five years in prison for each count.
While prosecutors recommended a 18-24 month sentence, a judge ultimately decided on eight months. Four months will be served in prison and four months will be home confinement, KCAU reported. She will also have two years of supervised release, and is ordered to pay a special assessment of $5,200.
Jeremy Taylor was not charged in the case but was named as an unindicted co-conspirator. Although he resisted calls to resign, he recently announced that he will not seek reelection.