Georgia Poll Worker Charged in Bomb Threat Hoax

United States: A poll worker in Georgia on Monday faced U.S charges of sending a threatening letter of a bomb attack on election workers, which was intended to imitate it was from a voter in the presidential election stronghold state.

Incident Details

Federal prosecutors claimed that Nicholas Wimbish, 25 years old, assaulted the voter while working at the Jones County Elections Office in Gray, Georgia, on Oct. 16, as reported by Reuters.

The following day, Wimbish posted a letter to the election superintendent of the county that contained typed statements written as though they were written by that particular voter, the prosecutors stated. The letter had alleged that Wimbish was a ‘closeted liberal election fraudster’ who had been shuttingtling between voters in a line to ballots, charging papers reveal.

Content of the Threatening Letter

They claim a letter penned by a “Jones County voter” threatened Wimbish and others after saying that people would “learn a violent lesson about stealing our elections!”

Prosecutors said the letter ended with a handwritten note: “PS boom toy in early vote place, cigar burning, be safe.”

Wimbish was accused of sending a bomb letter, communicating a bomb hoax, sending a threat letter, and lying to the FBI, as the prosecution stated. A legal representative for Wimbish was not available at the time of writing this article.

Heightened Security

Georgia is one of seven battleground states that are considered to determine the winner between the Republican candidate, former President Donald Trump, and the Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris in Tuesday’s presidential election showdown, as reported by Reuters.

Fears of possible political volatility have led authorities to adopt several measures to increase security before and after voting.