The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for January 16, 2023
Today’s Links
Articles & Resources:
Associated Press – An Iowa official’s wife is charged with 52 counts of voter fraud in congressional race
Sioux City Journal – Wife of Woodbury County elected official faces 52 counts of voter fraud
U.S. Department of Justice – Woman Arrested for Voter Fraud Scheme
Alabama News Network – Perry County Commission Chairman Albert Turner, Jr. Indicted on Voter Fraud Charges
Alabama.com – Perry County Commission Chairman charged with voting multiple times, ‘stuffing’ ballot box
The Brennan Center – The Myth of Voter Fraud
Today’s Script: (Variations occur with audio due to editing for time)
You’re listening to the American Democracy Minute, keeping YOUR government by and for the people.
We’re very careful on the ADM when we talk about voter fraud. It happens, but in tiny numbers, and it’s not widespread as alleged by former President Trump. Today, we have two cases of what may be real voter fraud – but guess what? They got caught.
Last week, Kim Phuong Taylor was arrested in Sioux City, IA on 52 counts of voter fraud. Phuong Taylor is the spouse of a 2020 Republican candidate for U.S. Congress.
The indictment alleges that for the 2020 primary and general elections, Phuong Taylor filled out registration forms for members of the Sioux City Vietnamese community who had limited or no English, requested absentee ballots for them, and collected and submitted those ballots–some without their knowledge. She allegedly repeated it to aid her husband in the general election for a county post. The federal penalty for the Congressional race could be as much as 5 years per count.
In Alabama, Perry County Commission Chairman Albert Turner Jr., son of a civil rights activist, is charged with illegally voting during the May 2022 Democratic primary by filling out additional ballots. He is also charged with collecting and mailing an undisclosed number of ballots during the November 2022 general election. Turner denies the charges.
The moral of these stories? What little fraud there is gets caught, because our system works.
We have links to articles at AmericanDemocracyMinute.org. For the American Democracy Minute, I’m Brian Beihl.