A Georgia poll worker is facing charges for allegedly sending bomb threats to a polling place before Election Day.
The FBI alleges that 25-year-old Nicholas Wimbush sent a bomb threat to the Jones County superintendent of elections on Oct. 17.
“Wimbush was serving as a poll worker at the Jones County Elections Office on October 16, when he had a verbal altercation with a voter. Later that evening, Wimbush allegedly researched online to The following day, Wimbish reportedly mailed a letter to the Jones County Superintendent of Elections, purportedly to the ‘voters of Jones County’, to determine what information about them would be publicly available. was from,” The Department of Justice wrote in a statement.
The Justice Department said Wimbush’s letter was allegedly “crafted to appear as if it came from a voter,” including claims such as “Wimbush has given me hell” and that Wimbush was “attention to voters.” were distracting from concentration.”
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Nicholas Wimbush, 25, is accused of sending bomb threats to a polling place in Georgia.
“The letter threatened that Wimbush and others should ‘look over their shoulder,’ that ‘I know where they all live because I got their voting addresses,'” the DOJ wrote. The DOJ wrote. “Additionally, the letter allegedly threatened to ‘rape the women’ in anger and warned them to ‘watch their every move and watch over your shoulder’.”
The letter ended with a handwritten note, “PS bum toy at early voting place, lit cigar, be safe,” the DOJ said.
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Wimbush was originally arrested for the incident on November 4th, and made his first court appearance on November 5th.
Wednesday’s indictment also alleges that Wimbush lied to the FBI during the investigation. Officials say Wimbish denied writing the letter and suggested a voter wrote it instead.
FBI investigators later discovered a copy of the letter on Wimbush’s computer.
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According to the DOJ, Wimbush is charged with sending a bomb threat, communicating false information about a bomb threat, sending a threatening letter and making false statements to the FBI. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison for the sending a bomb threat count and five years in prison for sending threatening letters, delivering false information and making false statements.
