The Justice Department indicted a former Georgia poll worker after he allegedly made bomb threats against election workers.
In the press release, the DOJ said 25-year-old Nicholas Wimbish was indicted after allegedly mailing a letter threatening poll workers and later lying to the FBI.
In mid-October Wimbish got into “a verbal altercation with a voter” at the Jones County Elections Office. He then allegedly searched online to find “information about himself” that “would be publicly available.”
Wimbish, a day later, then allegedly mailed a letter to the county’s election superintendent from a “Jones County Voter,” including a bomb threat.
The letter was allegedly drafted to make it appear as if it came from the voter, such as by stating that Wimbish had “give[n] me hell” and that Wimbish was “conspiring votes” and “distracting voters from concentrating.” The letter threatened that Wimbish and others “should look over their shoulder,” that “I know where they go,” that “I know where they all live because I found home voting addresses for all them,” and that the “young men will get beatdown if they fight me” and “will get the treason punishment by firing squad if they fight back.”
Further, the letter allegedly threatened to “rage rape” the “ladies” and warned them to “watch every move they make and look over their shoulder.”
The letter concluded with a handwritten note, “PS boom toy in early vote place, cigar burning, be safe.”
Wimbish faces charges including conveying false information about a bomb threat and mailing a bomb threat, according to the department. He faces up to 10 years in prison.
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