A former Georgia ballot employee has been indicted after reportedly issuing a bomb menace towards election staff, the Justice Division mentioned in a press launch Wednesday.
Within the launch, the division mentioned 25-year-old Nicholas Wimbish was indicted after allegedly mailing a letter threatening ballot staff and for mendacity to the FBI.
In mid-October Wimbish obtained into “a verbal altercation with a voter” on the Jones County Elections Workplace. He then allegedly searched on-line to search out “information about himself” that “would be publicly available.”
Wimbish, a day later, then allegedly mailed a letter to the county’s election superintendent from a “Jones County Voter,” together with a bomb menace.
“The letter was allegedly drafted to make it seem as if it got here from the voter, akin to by stating that Wimbish had ‘give[n] me hell’ and that Wimbish was ‘conspiring votes’ and ‘distracting voters from concentrating,'” the division continued.
The Justice Division mentioned that different contents of the letter included threats concentrating on Wimbish and different ballot staff, akin to saying they “should look over their shoulder” and “that ‘I know where they go.’” It included “a handwritten note” that mentioned “PS boom toy in early vote place, cigar burning, be safe.”
The indictment states that Wimbish instructed the FBI that the Jones County voter despatched the letters and that he had not performed the web analysis.
Wimbish faces costs together with conveying false details about a bomb menace and mailing a bomb menace, in keeping with the division. His jail sentence is also as much as 10 years lengthy.
The Hill has reached out to the legislation agency of Wimbish’s lawyer for remark.
