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Kim Taylor of Woodbury county given eight-month custodial sentence for helping Jeremy Taylor fraudulently win election
An Iowa woman found guilty on 52 counts of voter fraud, carried out in support of her Republican husband, was given an eight-month custodial sentence.
Kim Taylor, of Woodbury county, will serve four months in prison and four in home confinement, KTIV, a Sioux City TV station, reported. Subject to two years’ supervised release, Taylor will also pay $5,200.
Each count carried a maximum penalty of five years in prison – or 260 years in all.
During sentencing on Monday, Leonard Strand, the judge, said a vastly lighter punishment was correct because of factors including Taylor’s caretaking role for her children and good community standing.
Taylor’s husband, Jeremy Taylor, ran for Congress in 2020, losing a Republican primary. He was then elected to the Woodbury county board of supervisors. He resigned as board chair after his wife was convicted but remains a board member. He was not charged in the voter fraud case but has said he will not seek re-election.
How does 52 counts of voter fraud for the wife of a politician equal “good community standing”
She’s a Good Christian Republican, which means she’s a Moral and Upstanding Person, because only Moral and Upstanding people become Christian Republicans.
So obviously it was just a momentary lapse in her Good Judgement.
I wish I was being sarcastic but this is actually how they think.