SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — The spouse of a northwestern Iowa county manager has been charged with 52 counts of voter fraud after she allegedly crammed out and solid absentee ballots in her husband’s unsuccessful race for a Republican nomination to run for Congress in 2020, federal prosecutors stated.
Kim Phuong Taylor, 49, used to be arrested Thursday and pleaded now not to blame to the fees ahead of being launched on a non-public recognizance bond, the Sioux Town Magazine reported. Her trial is scheduled to start March 20.
Prosecutors allege in an indictment unsealed Thursday that Phuong Taylor crammed out voter registration paperwork or delivered absentee ballots for folks in Sioux Town’s Vietnamese neighborhood who had restricted skill to learn and perceive English.
She crammed out “dozens of voter registrations, absentee poll request paperwork, and absentee ballots containing false data,” and delivered absentee ballots, on occasion with out the information of the folks whose names had been used, consistent with the indictment.
Pat Gill, who’s Woodbury County’s auditor and election commissioner, stated Thursday that he notified the Iowa secretary of state’s workplace after anyone contacted his workplace as a result of a poll have been fraudulently solid of their identify in November 2020.
He stated his workplace later supplied the FBI with suspected fraudulent registration paperwork and absentee ballots.
Phuong Taylor dedicated the fraud ahead of the June 2020 number one, through which her husband, Jeremy Taylor, a former Iowa Space member, completed 3rd within the race for the Republican nomination to run for Iowa’s 4th District congressional seat, prosecutors allege. The winner of that race, Randy Feenstra, simply received election to Congress that November.
Prosecutors contend that Phuong Taylor dedicated the similar fraud ahead of the November 2020 election through which Jeremy Taylor used to be elected to the Woodbury County Board, consistent with the indictment.
Jeremy Taylor isn’t named within the indictment and isn’t accused of wrongdoing.
Kim Phuong Taylor’s lawyer, John Greer of Spencer, Iowa, declined to remark at the fees, the Magazine reported.