A federal jury in Sioux City, Iowa, convicted an Iowa woman Tuesday for a voter fraud scheme during the Iowa 2020 primary and general elections.
Prosecutors say Kim Phuong Taylor, 49, took advantage of other Vietnamese immigrants by illegally filling out election forms and ballots. Her husband, Jeremy Taylor, lost a GOP primary for Iowa’s 4th U.S. Congressional District in 2020. But won election to the Woodbury County Board of Supervisors in 2020.
After Taylor’s husband lost in the primary, he 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.
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Taylor submitted or caused others to submit dozens of voter registrations, absentee ballot request forms, and absentee ballots containing false information.
Taylor completed and signed voter forms without voters’ permission and told others they could sign on behalf of absent relatives.
The jury convicted Taylor of 26 counts of providing false information in registering and voting, three counts of fraudulent registration, and 23 counts of fraudulent voting.
She faces up to five years in prison for each count.
A sentencing date will be set after a presentence report is prepared.
The FBI Omaha Field Office and USPIS Denver Division investigated the case.
Trial Attorneys Richard B. Evans and Lauren M. Castaldi of the Criminal Division’s Public Integrity Section and Assistant U.S. Attorney Ron Timmons for the Northern District of Iowa are prosecuting the case.