Georgia poll worker arrested for mailing bomb threat to voting station

A Georgia canvass idiosyncratic has been arrested by national officials for allegedly mailing a missive threatening different canvass workers with rape, a 'beatdown' and a weaponry threat.

Nicholas Wimbish, 25, of Milledgeville, Georgia, got into a verbal statement with a elector portion serving arsenic a canvass idiosyncratic astatine the Jones County Elections Office successful Gray, Georgia connected October 16. 

Prosecutors allege Wimbish spent remainder of the evening researching online what idiosyncratic accusation astir him mightiness beryllium publically accessible.

The adjacent day, the Georgia College and State University postgraduate allegedly mailed a missive addressed to the Jones County Elections Superintendent nether an alias named 'Jones County Voter'. 

The missive was drafted to marque it look arsenic if it came from the elector and accused Wimbish of 'give[n] maine hell', 'conspiring votes' and 'distracting voters from concentrating'.

Furthermore, the insubstantial threatened that Wimbish and others 'should look implicit their shoulder... I cognize wherever they go... I cognize wherever they each unrecorded due to the fact that I recovered location voting addresses for each them'. 

Additionally, helium said that the 'young men volition get beatdown if they combat me' and 'will get the treason punishment by firing squad if they combat back,' according to the Department of Justice. 

The missive besides threatened to 'rage rape' the 'ladies' and warned them to 'watch each determination they marque and look implicit their shoulder'. 

Ultimately, it concluded with a handwritten note, 'PS roar artifact successful aboriginal ballot place, cigar burning, beryllium safe.' 

Wimbish has since been charged with mailing a weaponry threat, conveying mendacious accusation astir a weaponry threat, mailing a threatening missive and making mendacious statements to the FBI. 

If recovered blameworthy by national prosecutors, helium could beryllium sentenced to a maximum of 25 years successful prison.

The accused was 1 of the 5 students stationed astatine Georgia polling site. According to a May article, 'Wimbish of Milledgeville managed a precinct astatine the Jones County Senior Center with elder Emily Lanham of Augusta, Georgia.'

He had precocious graduated with a master's successful nationalist medication and antecedently earned a grade successful governmental subject with a insignificant successful rhetoric. 

Wimbish had plans to thatch oregon negociate elections successful the future, according to the illustration done connected him for the article. 

'It’s been large to research a imaginable vocation way successful this field. I ne'er realized the existent meaning of this enactment and that it’s thing I could marque a vocation retired of, until I met Professor Claire Sanders.

'Working immoderate predetermination successful immoderate capacity—whether for an internship oregon not—is a crowning moment. The consciousness of achievement, being a portion of democracy-in-action, is rewarding,' helium said.  

Days aft his arrest, helium posted a abbreviated CNN clip of Gabriel Sterling, COO of Georgia Secretary of State's Office addressing voters.  

'The (candidate) you hatred winning, it mightiness happen.'

'Please respect your community's predetermination officials and each predetermination officials, arsenic good arsenic their safety.

'Do cognize contempt people's weird theories, predetermination workers person a passionateness and work to execute an predetermination fairly, are doing the people's enactment without fraud, deceit, and interference of immoderate kind.

'After the election, hopefully the result tin beryllium wide peacefully accepted and the governmental rhetoric tin beryllium toned down,' helium captioned the November 1 post. 

The FBI Atlanta Field Office is presently investigating the case.