The DOJ has reported a Georgia ballot employee was arrested on the eve of Election Day after allegedly mailing a letter to the Jones County Elections Superintendent threatening to hurt ballot employees.
Whereas serving as a ballot employee, Nicholas Wimbish, 25, of Milledgeville, Georgia, bought right into a verbal altercation with a voter on the Jones County Elections Workplace on October 16.
Within the night after the altercation occurred, Wimbish wrote a bomb risk to the Jones County Elections Superintendent pretending to be the voter he bought into an altercation with earlier.
Prosecutors allege that within the letter, Wimbish wrote in a means the place he tried to border the voter, reminiscent of writing that “Wimbish had given me hell” and that “Wimbish was conspiring votes.”
Within the letter’s closing, Wimbish wrote, “PS growth toy in early vote place, cigar burning, be secure.”
Wimbish has been charged with “mailing a bomb risk, conveying false details about a bomb risk, mailing a threatening letter, and making false statements to the FBI.”
A Georgia ballot employee was arrested immediately for mailing a letter to the Jones County Elections Superintendent threatening ballot employees.@FBIAtlanta @FBI @TheJusticeDept
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Per The DOJ:’
A Georgia ballot employee was arrested immediately for mailing a letter to the Jones County Elections Superintendent threatening ballot employees.
In line with the legal criticism, Nicholas Wimbish, 25, of Milledgeville, Georgia, was serving as a ballot employee on the Jones County Elections Workplace on Oct. 16 when he allegedly had a verbal altercation with a voter. Later that night, Wimbish carried out on-line analysis to find out what details about himself could be publicly accessible. The next day, Wimbish mailed a letter addressed to the Jones County Elections Superintendent, purportedly from a “Jones County Voter.”
The letter was allegedly drafted to make it seem as if it got here from the voter, reminiscent of by stating that Wimbish had “give[n] me hell” and that Wimbish was “conspiring votes” and “distracting voters from concentrating.” The letter threatened that Wimbish and others “ought to look over their shoulder,” that “I do know the place they go,” that “I do know the place all of them reside as a result of I discovered residence voting addresses for all them,” and that the “younger males will get beatdown in the event that they battle me” and “will get the treason punishment by firing squad in the event that they battle again.”
Additional, the letter threatened to “rage rape” the “women” and warned them to “watch each transfer they make and look over their shoulder.” The letter concluded with a handwritten word, “PS growth toy in early vote place, cigar burning, be secure.”
Wimbish is charged with mailing a bomb risk, conveying false details about a bomb risk, mailing a threatening letter, and making false statements to the FBI.
If Wimbish is convicted, he faces a most sentence of 25 years in Federal jail.
