Federal authorities have arrested a Georgia poll worker for allegedly mailing a letter that threatened other poll workers with rape, a “beatdown,” and a bomb threat. Nicholas Wimbish, 25, from Milledgeville, Georgia, reportedly got into a heated argument with a voter while working at the Jones County Elections Office in Gray, Georgia, on October 16.
Prosecutors claim that the registered Republican spent the remainder of the evening researching what personal information about him might be publicly available online. The next day, the Georgia College and State University graduate allegedly sent a letter to the Jones County Elections Superintendent, using the alias “Jones County Voter,” threating to bomb the poll station.
Chilling Threat
The letter was written to make it appear as though it came from the voter, accusing Wimbish of ” ‘give[n] me hell’, ‘conspiring votes’ and ‘distracting voters from concentrating’.” It also contained threats, saying that Wimbish and others “should look …