Republican's Wife Charged with 52 Counts of Voter Fraud

Phuong Taylor [left] with husband, Jeremy [right].

After allegedly filling out and casting absentee ballots in her husband's unsuccessful race for a Republican nomination to run for Congress in 2020, the wife of a northwestern Iowa county supervisor has been charged with 52 counts of voter fraud.

According to the Sioux City Journal, Kim Phuong Taylor, 49, was arrested on Thursday and pleaded not guilty to the charges before being released on personal recognizance bond.

In an indictment, unsealed Thursday, prosecutors allege that Phuong Taylor filled out voter registration forms or delivered absentee ballots for people in Sioux City's Vietnamese community who were limited in their abilities to speak, read, and/or write English.

She did this for "dozens of voter registrations, absentee ballot request forms, and absentee ballots containing false information" and, according to the indictment, delivered these ballots---sometimes without the knowledge or consent of the people who's names were on the ballots.

The fraud was sussed out by Pat Gill, Woodbury County's auditor and election commissioner, who said Thursday that he had notified the Iowa secretary of state's office after someone contacted his office because a ballot had been fraudulently cast in their name in November 2020. Later, he provided the FBI with suspected fraudulent registration forms and absentee ballots.

Phuong Taylor's trial is set to begin March 20.