Wife of failed GOP House candidate convicted of ballot box-stuffing: prosecutors

A former Republican congressional candidate’s wife has been convicted of stuffing ballot boxes in the primary race her husband lost, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday.

Kim Phoung Taylor — wife of Iowa Republican Jeremy Taylor — was found guilty of 52 criminal counts of false voting information, fraudulent registration, and fraudulent voting linked to the 2020 primary, the Justice department said.

Phoung Taylor, 49, stuffed ballot boxes with election forms she coerced Vietnamese immigrants with limited English to complete, local news outlets report.

Trial evidence included testimony from two Iowa State students who discovered someone else had cast ballots in their names when they tried to file absentee, according Iowa Public Radio.

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Despite these efforts, Taylor lost the race to represent Iowa’s District 4, but later that year he won the Woodbury County Board of Supervisors race, prosecutors said.

Iowa Public Radio reports that he holds that position today.

Taylor has not been charged but the case remains under investigation, the Sioux City Journal reports.

"Now is a time for empathy for a family that is suffering," F. Montgomery Brown, Phoung Taylor's attorney, told the outlet. "This is how we solve controversies in America: with a jury, not with violence.”

Taylor could face up to five years in prison for each charge, prosecutors said.