MACON, Ga. — A Georgia poll worker was arrested on Monday for making a fake bomb threat to Jones County poll workers, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Georgia.
They say Nicholas Wimbish, a 25-year-old from Milledgeville, faces a maximum of 25 years in prison for mailing in a bomb threat, lying about it and making false statements to the FBI.
Per the report, Wimbish was working as a poll worker at the Jones County Elections Office on Oct. 16 when he got into a verbal argument with a voter. The next day, Wimbish mailed a letter to the Jones County Elections Superintendent “from a Jones County Voter.”
The release says the letter was written to make it seem like it came from the voter Wimbish had argued with, saying that Wimbish was disrupting voters at the polls.
They also say the letter threatened poll workers with physical and sexual violence, including that the alleged writer of the letter knew where the poll workers lived and had personal information about them.
The letter ended by saying “PS boom toy in early vote place, cigar burning, be safe,” according to the report.
The FBI Atlanta Field Office is investigating this case.
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