Two years after Sioux City resident Kim Phuong Taylor was initially convicted of voter fraud, a federal appeals court has upheld that conviction.
The 8th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in St. Louis has denied Taylor’s appeal, as first reported by the Sioux City Journal.
Taylor was convicted of 52 counts of voter fraud in November 2023 after a jury trial in Sioux City at the Federal Courthouse.
Prosecutors said she pursued unlawful means to help her husband, Jeremy Taylor, who ran for two electoral positions as a Republican candidate in 2020.
The jury ruled Taylor had illegally filled out election documents and ballots for members of the Vietnamese community, who had limited ability to read and understand English.
The appeals court said her conviction was supported by trial evidence and that the judge Leonard Strand’s instructions to jurors were not out of bounds.
In his opinion, Circuit Judge David Stras wrote, “Voter fraud is no myth. Kim Phuong Taylor does not think what she did counts, but the jury instructions were accurate and the evidence was sufficient.”
In April 2024, Taylor was sentenced to four months in prison and four months of home confinement, which she has since served.
