Prosecutors: Taylor filled out ballot applications, didn’t warn Vietnamese community it was a crime - KTIV Siouxland's News Channel

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SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - Charged with election fraud, defendant Kim Taylor faced a federal jury, in Sioux City, for the third day. Taylor faces up to 200 years in prison if convicted on all charges.

Prosecutors allege Taylor filled out ballot applications and failed to warn fellow members of the Vietnamese community that casting ballots on behalf of other people is a crime.

Taylor has been relaxed and very active in her defense, writing notes and communicating with her defense attorney before he takes on cross-examinations. In one dramatic moment today, her lawyer had to calm her down when she got animated over the translation of one government witness’s testimony.

Taylor looked on as the last witness of the day testified she wouldn’t have cast ballots in her sons’ names if Taylor would’ve translated a warning on the ballots that it was illegal to do so. While the current case focuses on elections in 2020 and 2022, prosecutors presented evidence that Taylor helped the woman fill out materials as far back as 2014.

The witness spoke softly and didn’t meet the eyes of jurors as she recounted illegally signing election materials on behalf of her two sons, and then filing ballots without their consent.

Under defense questioning, the witness testified she voted for “Donald Trump” in 2008, even though he wasn’t running for president at the time. The defense also elicited testimony that the witness often completed tasks for her sons, as is customary in Vietnamese culture. Two sons of Vietnamese immigrants testified they didn’t sign ballot materials, and that someone signed on their behalf.

One witness drew smiles and nods from the jurors when he mentioned he just became a U.S. citizen last month, and another 20-something witness said he wanted to vote to get an “I Voted” sticker. He testified he wasn’t able to get that sticker, because a family member stopped him on the way to the polls to tell him his vote had been cast on his behalf after a visit from Kim Taylor.

The defense elicited testimony that it was “possible” one witness gave his family authorization to vote on his behalf, though the witness said that’s unlikely.

However, sparks did fly when the government said Kim Taylor’s mother had been speaking with witnesses on a break. The judge told her she would open herself up for contempt charges if she talked to witnesses... though the judge also denied a DOJ request to exclude the mother from the courtroom.

Kim Taylor’s husband, Jeremy Taylor, an unindicted co-conspirator and sitting Woodbury County Supervisor also was a subject in court when his name came up. His name did come up when a county employee testified he was waiting in the car when Kim Taylor dropped a “large volume” of ballot materials in the drop box. Another witness testified Jeremy Taylor came to their home with Kim Taylor when she was translating election materials.

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