Georgia poll worker arrested for fake bomb threat at voting site

A canvass idiosyncratic successful Georgia was arrested Monday and accused of threatening chap predetermination workers and faking a weaponry threat astatine an aboriginal voting location.

Nicholas Wimbush, 25, mailed the menace successful mid-October aft a confrontation with a elector astatine the Jones County Elections Office connected Oct. 16, the Justice Department said Monday successful a property release.

The letter was written arsenic if it came from the elector who Wimbush had a disagreement with, the feds said. It concluded, “PS roar artifact successful aboriginal ballot place, cigar burning, beryllium safe” successful deliberately unusual handwriting, according to charging documents.

Wimbush was charged with mailing a weaponry threat, mailing a threatening letter, lying astir a weaponry and lying to the FBI. He faces up to 25 years successful prison.

On Oct. 16, Wimbush had a verbal quality with a voter, aft the unidentified idiosyncratic became upset that Wimbush was chatting with different canvass worker, the Justice Department said.

Wimbush past went home, recovered retired what accusation astir himself was publically available, and allegedly wrote the missive arsenic if it came from that aforesaid voter, threatening “woke libs” moving astatine the polling site.

“Tell them I cognize wherever they unrecorded and volition find them each 1 night. I volition travel them connected the road. You won’t halt them truthful I volition halt them from your predetermination fraud,” Wimbush wrote, according to the feds. “This is however patriots bash it. Bad things volition hap to forestall civilian war. … They volition larn a convulsive acquisition astir stealing our elections!”

The missive besides included threats of intersexual unit against pistillate workers astatine the Jones County Elections Office.

Though the missive was signed “a Jones County voter,” the feds searched Wimbush’s cellphone and recovered helium had Googled “Nicholas Wimbish jones region elections” and “post bureau driblet box” earlier the missive was mailed.

The probe into Wimbush was portion of a nationwide effort by the Justice Department to support predetermination workers up of the 2024 election. An Illinois antheral was arrested portion successful enactment to ballot Tuesday aft helium punched a 74-year-old predetermination justice successful the face.

Georgia is considered 1 of 7 important battleground states successful the statesmanlike race betwixt Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.