Convicted of 52 counts of vote fraud and sentenced to 4 months in prison out of a possible 260 years? Sounds about white.
this post was submitted on 03 Apr 2024
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I think this punishment is closer to what it should be than the alternative. Instead of pushing for whites to get harder sentences, we should be pushing for everyone to get the white sentencing treatment.
260 years is for sure overkill, imo, but 4 months is ridiculous. The intent was clear and the actions were intentional through and through. I think 5 years minimum should be required. Fuck her "community standing" and her corrupt AF husband can take care of the kids while she does hard time. I didn't see, but are any of the charges felonies, or will this all show on her record as a simple misdemeanor, further not carrying much significance? What a joke.
Can't argue with that.
If this is the same one that's been all over the place for the last few days, she's a Vietnamese immigrant.
She's neither black nor Latina, and that appears to be the dividing line where sentencing is concerned particularly to those married to a white, probably wealthy, republican politician.
I think it doesn't matter, as long as she's in the cult she's as good as white.
It's almost trite at this point, but
🎶every accusation is a confession🎶
How does 52 counts of voter fraud for the wife of a politician equal “good community standing”
She’s a Good Christian Republican, which means she’s a Moral and Upstanding Person, because only Moral and Upstanding people become Christian Republicans.
So obviously it was just a momentary lapse in her Good Judgement.
I wish I was being sarcastic but this is actually how they think.
It's ALWAYS projection with the conservatives. Always.
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.
The original article contains 599 words, the summary contains 150 words. Saved 75%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!
Just republican shit.
Can anyone summarise what the fraud was?
Last November, Kim Taylor was found guilty of 26 counts of providing false information in registering and voting, 23 counts of fraudulent voting and three counts of fraudulent registration.
The office of the US attorney for the northern district of Iowa said Taylor “perpetrated a scheme to fraudulently generate votes for her husband in the primary election for Iowa’s fourth US congressional district in June 2020.
Taylor submitted or caused others to submit dozens of voter registrations, absentee ballot request forms, and absentee ballots containing false information. Taylor completed and signed voter forms without voters’ permission and told others that they could sign on behalf of relatives who were not present.”
Thanks.