The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday announced the arrest of Nicholas Wimbish, a 25-year-old poll worker in Georgia, for allegedly mailing a bomb threat to local election officials.
Wimbish had a confrontation with a voter on October 16 that motivated him to write a menacing letter to the Jones County Elections Superintendent, according to a DOJ press release.
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 letter threatened that Wimbish and others “should look over their shoulder,” that “I know where they go,” that “I know where they all live because I found home voting addresses for all them,” and that the “young men will get beatdown if they fight…
