Former Ga. poll worker indicted over bomb threat to polling place
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - A former Georgia poll worker was indicted Tuesday for allegedly threatening to bomb a polling place and lying to the FBI during the investigation, according to the Department of Justice.
Nicholas Wimbish, 25, of Milledgeville, was arrested on Nov. 4 and made his first court appearance on Nov. 5.
According to the Department of Justice, Wimbish was working at the Jones County Elections Office on Oct. 16 when he had a verbal altercation with a voter. Later that evening, Wimbish researched online to determine what information about himself would be publicly available.
The following day, Wimbish mailed a letter to the Jones County Elections Superintendent from a “Jones County Voter,” the Department of Justice says.
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The department says the letter stated that Wimbish was “conspiring votes” and “distracting voters from concentrating.”
The letter threatened that Wimbish and others “should look over their shoulder” and that “I know where they all live because I found home voting addresses for all them.”
The DOJ says the letter also threatened to “rage rape” the “ladies” and warned them to “watch every move they make and look over their shoulder.”
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The letter concluded with a handwritten note, “PS boom toy in early vote place, cigar burning, be safe.”
Wimbish told the FBI that he believed the Jones County voter he had the altercation with sent the letter and that he had not researched himself. The letter was later found on Wimbish’s computer, the DOJ says.
Wimbish is charged with mailing a bomb threat, conveying false information about a bomb threat, mailing a threatening letter, and making false statements to the FBI.
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