A former Georgia poll worker has been indicted after reportedly issuing a bomb threat against election workers, the Justice Department said in a press release Wednesday.
In the release, the department said 25-year-old Nicholas Wimbish was indicted after allegedly mailing a letter threatening poll workers and for 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 department continued.
The DOJ said that other contents of the letter included threats targeting Wimbish and other poll workers, such as saying they “‘should look over their shoulder’” and “that ‘I know where they go.’” It included “a handwritten note” that said “‘PS boom toy in early vote place, cigar burning, be safe.’”
The indictment states that Wimbish told the FBI that the Jones County voter sent the letters and that he had not done the online research.
Wimbish faces charges including conveying false information about a bomb threat and mailing a bomb threat, according to the department. His prison sentence could also be up to 10 years long.
The Hill has reached out to the law firm of the Wimbish’s attorney.
