Woodbury County Auditor and elections official Pat Gill had an update this morning on the voter fraud case he announced yesterday.
Gill said at a courthouse news conference that the Federal Bureau of Investigation continues looking into the actions of the wife of Woodbury County Supervisor Jeremy Taylor. Kim Phuong Taylor of Sioux City has been arrested and charged with more than 50 counts of voter fraud.
Taylor is accused of submitting or having others submit dozens of voter registration and absentee ballot request forms in 2020 when her husband was on the ballot. Jeremy Taylor unsuccessfully ran in the Republican primary for Iowa’s Fourth Congressional District in 2020.
During the news conference, Gill said during the 2020 primaries, he was informed of at least two voters who said their votes were submitted without their knowledge. He was also informed by precinct workers of a series of suspicious looking ballots.
What they had was a stack of ballots that were written in, and uh, this is the first time I have ever seen this, you could tell by looking at them, they were all filled out by the same person. That was my read on it.
And Gill said there were also a lot of absentee ballots in the 2020 elections that seemed to be suspicious. He said there were a lot of signatures on affidavit envelopes that looked like they had been signed by the same person.
Afterwards, when I was visiting with the FBI, I asked them if they were interested in seeing the other affidavit envelopes, that had the same signature. And they said yes.
In November of that same year, Taylor won back his seat on the Supervisors after resigning earlier in the year after the county auditor ruled Taylor did not live at the address listed on his voter registration.
Kim Taylor has been charged with 23 counts of fraudulent voting, 26 counts of providing false information, and three counts of voter registration fraud. If convicted, she faces up to five years in prison for each count.
Gill says he worries that voters will now mistrust the voting system, which he says, helped his office spot the suspect ballots..
It’s about the integrity of the process, and that is what I am very concerned about. I want voters to feel good about that and that the system works, and like I said, that’s why I am here, and I believe the system did work in this situation.
Gill says the investigation into the fraudulent votes and voter registration fraud will continue and he will provide updates as he goets them.
