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Kim Taylor of Woodbury county given eight-month custodial sentence for helping Jeremy Taylor fraudulently win election

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[-] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 51 points 8 months ago

Funny how, despite all their screaming about the subject, Republicans are the ones who we keep catching in the act of voter fraud.

[-] Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago

For a while I doubted the people who always say so in threads like these, but if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's probably projection. Every time.

[-] Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 13 points 8 months ago

I was actually friends with someone whose mother illegally voted on their behalf. It made minor national headlines and everything.

She got a slap on the wrist.

Republican, of course.

[-] bilboswaggings@sopuli.xyz 5 points 8 months ago

Republicans probably: Her actions were justified unlike those of the Biden crime family

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

In before "Well, everyone else does it!"

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 4 points 8 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


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.

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.

The guilty verdict is an example of how the justice system works to protect the voting rights of citizens and ensure fair and honest elections.”

Analysing voter fraud case data collected by the hard-right Heritage Foundation, the nonpartisan Brookings Institution recently said: “So, what’s going on here?

Taylor’s lawyer, F Montgomery Brown, said he did not “see anything in the internal communications that suggested there was any influence by the Biden administration whatsoever.


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