Woodbury County supervisor's wife found guilty of 52 counts of voter fraud

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Woodbury County supervisor's wife found guilty of 52 counts of voter fraud
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Prosecutors say Kim Phuong Taylor wanted her husband to win elections in 2020 “by any means necessary.”

A jury spent about five hours deliberating before convicting Kim Phuong Taylor on 52 counts of voter fraud in federal court Tuesday in Sioux City. Taylor faces up to five years in prison on each count. A sentencing date hasn’t been set.

Prosecutors say Taylor took advantage of other Vietnamese immigrants by illegally filling out election forms and ballots. Her husband, Jeremy Taylor, lost a GOP primary for the U.S. House and won election to the Woodbury County Board of Supervisors in 2020.

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Two Iowa State students, Tam and Thien Doan, took the stand and said that when they tried to file absentee ballots in Ames, they discovered someone had already cast a ballot in their names. They are Democrats, but their votes supported all Republican candidates, including former President Donald Trump. They were able to get new ballots in time for the general election.

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Wow more conservatives committing voter fraud, shocking. The projection with these fuckers is astounding.

As the saying goes, every GOP accusation is really a confession.

No party listed in headline: guaranteed Republican.

Republican - This need to be the first word in first sentence of the title and every paragraph thereafter

I think it can just be assumed at this point.

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Just yesterday my parents were complaining about "cheating" on Election Day by Democrats. I'm half tempted to send them this.

Do it. Ask not what thanksgiving drama can do for you but what you can do to cause thanksgiving drama

don't do it. anecdotal one off cases are not meaningful. discussions about them are really annoying. they don't go anywhere

It's absolutely not an isolated case. It's enough of a trend that I'd argue it's no longer simply anecdotal anymore either. Political discussions with family are almost always unproductive and annoying, but I don't see how silence benefits anyone by the fascists.

the anecdote doesn't show how it's an inherent problem. you need to demonstrate that in some other way. you don't have to be silent you just have to not suck at arguing

No, one anecdote doesn't. But, as I just said, this is hardly an isolated incident. Several election fraud cases have made news in the last few years and all of them have been Republicans. Maybe you just suck at reading comprehension. Maybe you just don't pay attention to the news. Maybe you're the kind that thinks if they just totally ignore the points that other people make and repeat themselves louder until the other side shuts up that they've somehow "won" the argument.

Republicans haven't given up claiming voter fraud is rampant, and they should know. They're the ones perpetrating it.

That's why they keep trying to claim the 2020 election was stolen: they just can't fathom how they could cheat so hard and still manage to lose.

52 counts of voter fraud

Taylor faces up to five years in prison on each count.

Always a #GOP #fascist. A year for each charge sounds appropriate.

I'd argue 5 for each is fine. Regardless of wether she can live long enough to serve them.

Keep the body chained to the wall for the entire 260 years and throw every republican sentenced to do time into the cell with her corpse. Really drive home how bad they fucked up.

Two Iowa State students, Tam and Thien Doan, took the stand and said that when they tried to file absentee ballots in Ames, they discovered someone had already cast a ballot in their names. They are Democrats, but their votes supported all Republican candidates, including former President Donald Trump. They were able to get new ballots in time for the general election.

Oh my god, that would have pissed me off so much.

And if it was me, (presumably, based on the names) an Asian-American in Iowa, if I was being denied my right to vote and it turned out my ballot went to a Republican, I would have assumed it was because I was Asian that they did it, what with Republicans and racism and deep red Iowa. But apparently not.