By Nate Raymond
(Reuters) – A Georgia ballot employee was arrested on Monday on U.S. prices that he despatched a letter threatening to bomb election employees that he wrote to look as if it got here from a voter within the presidential election battleground state.
Federal prosecutors stated Nicholas Wimbish, 25, had been serving as a ballot employee on the Jones County Elections Workplace in Grey, Georgia, on Oct. 16 when he bought right into a verbal altercation with a voter.
The following day, Wimbish mailed a letter to the county’s elections superintendent that was drafted to look as if it got here from that very same voter, prosecutors stated. The letter complained that Wimbish was a “closeted liberal election fraudster” who had been distracting voters in line to solid ballots, in accordance with charging papers.
Authorities stated the letter, signed by a “Jones county voter,” stated Wimbish and others “should look over their shoulder” and warned that folks would “learn a violent lesson about stealing our elections!”
Prosecutors stated the letter ended with a handwritten word: “PS boom toy in early vote place, cigar burning, be safe.”
Wimbish was charged with mailing a bomb risk, conveying false details about a bomb risk, mailing a threatening letter, and making false statements to the FBI, prosecutors stated. A lawyer for Wimbish couldn’t be instantly recognized.
Georgia is one in all seven intently contested states anticipated to determine the result of Tuesday’s presidential election match up between Republican former President Donald Trump and Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris.
Issues about potential political violence have prompted officers to take a wide range of measures to bolster safety throughout and after Election Day.
