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This is the best summary I could come up with:
An Iowa woman who sought to boost her husband’s unsuccessful congressional bid in 2020 through a voter fraud scheme was sentenced by a federal judge to four months in prison Monday in a rare case of fraudulent voting.
During the 2020 primary and general elections, federal prosecutors said, Taylor filled out voter registrations and absentee ballots for members of the Vietnamese community under the guise of offering translation help.
“On behalf of Ms. Taylor and her family, we’re pleased with the sentencing result,” defense attorney F. Montgomery Brown told The Washington Post on Wednesday.
Brown had sought a longer home confinement term in lieu of prison and said the court was given “extensive” mitigating background information on Taylor, including “a considerable body of letters of support.”
Chief U.S. District Judge Leonard Strand acknowledged as part of his sentencing decision that Taylor had no prior criminal record and was the primary caretaker to her and her husband’s six children and her elderly mother.
She cited the case of Crystal Mason, a Texas woman whose five-year sentence on a charge of illegally voting in 2016 was overturned by an appeals court last week.
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The sentence: 4mo prison, 4mo home confinement.
That feels really light for attempting to compromise our system of government.