MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. (WSAV) — A Georgia poll worker in Jones County was arrested Monday for mailing a letter threatening poll workers with a “beatdown,” rape and a bomb threat.
Nicholas Wimbish, 25, of Milledgeville, was serving as a poll worker at the Jones County Elections Office on Oct. 16 when he had a verbal altercation with a voter, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said. Later that day, they said that Wimbish looked up what information about himself would be publicly available online.
The following day, Oct. 17, Wimbish mailed a letter addressed to the Jones County Elections Superintendent, purportedly posing as a “Jones County Voter” and complained about himself.
“The letter was allegedly drafted to make it appear as if it came from the voter,” the DOJ said.
Wimbish said in the letter that Wimbish had “give[n] me hell” and that he 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 me” and “will get the treason punishment by firing squad if they fight back.”
The DOJ also said that letter threatened to “rage rape” the “ladies” and warned them to “watch every move they make and look over their shoulder.” The letter concluded with a handwritten note, “PS boom toy in early vote place, cigar burning, be safe.”
Wimbish is charged with mailing a bomb threat, conveying false information about a bomb threat, mailing a threatening letter and making false statements to the FBI, according to the DOJ.
The FBI Atlanta Field Office is investigating the case.
