United States of America v. Kim Phuong Taylor, also known as Kimberly Taylor

Sioux City, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with voter fraud.



In 2020, Taylor decided to run her own version of a get-out-the-vote campaign. The idea was to help Vietnamese Americans, some of whom struggled with English and were unfamiliar with our election system, register and vote. Her

motives were not purely altruistic: she hoped they would vote for her husband, who was a candidate in the election.



Absentee voting was common during the pandemic. Taylor made it easy by bringing the necessary forms, translating them, having voters complete them, and returning them to the county auditor's office. Once the ballots arrived in the mail,

Taylor would come back and help fill them out.



Sometimes, however, Taylor did more than just help. If she learned that a voting-age child was away from home, perhaps at college, she would instruct someone else in the family to complete the necessary forms and then vote on their behalf. For others, she just completed those steps herself. She turned in a total of 26 doctored documents, all with handwriting or signatures that were not the children's own.



The county auditor, who grew suspicious of Taylor's activities, contacted the FBI. After investigating, agents arrested her at her home. An indictment relied on two federal statutes to charge her with 52 counts of voter fraud, both as a principal and as an accomplice. See 52 U.S.C. §§ 10307, 20511.



Taylor's defense was that she did not know she was breaking the law.

The Defendant was found guilty.



The Defendant was sentenced to 4-months imprisonment on each of Counts 1-52 to be served concurrently; 2-years supervised release on each of Counts 1-52 to be served concurrently; $5,200 special assessment