Georgia election worker accused of sending bomb threat to polling station
Former President Donald Trump made history on Tuesday evening when he became only the second president in American history to win two nonconsecutive terms.
Yet Trump's victory wasn't the week's only notable election-related event this week, as on Monday a poll worker was arrested for making bomb threats.
Threat allegedly tied to verbal alternation between voter and poll worker
According to the Daily Caller, 25-year-old Georgia poll worker Nicolas Wimbish was taken into custody by federal law enforcement officers over a letter which he allegedly sent.
A press release put out by the Department of Justice (DOJ) asserts that Wimbish got into "a verbal altercation with a voter" at the Jones County Elections Office last month.
Wimbish is then said to have carried "online research to determine what information about himself would be publicly available" before sending "a letter addressed to the Jones County Elections Superintendent."
The letter in question was written in such a way that it appeared to come from a "Jones County Voter" and leveled a series of complaints concerning Wimbish.
Letter spoke of inflicting sexual assault on female staff
Specifically, the letter claimed that Wimbish had "give[n] me hell" and had been "distracting voters from concentrating" in addition to "conspiring votes."
The letter stated that Wimbish and other staff "should look over their shoulder" as the purported letter writer knew "where they go" and "where they all live" due to his having "found home voting addresses for all them."
Additionally, the letter cautioned that "young men will get beatdown if they fight me" and "will get the treason punishment by firing squad if they fight back."
Georgia Poll Worker Arrested for Making Bomb Threat to Election Workers
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What's more, the letter further threatened to "rage rape" the "ladies," adding that female employees of the Jones County Elections Office needed to "look over their shoulder."
Bomb threat was directed towards polling station
As the ominous message drew to a close, it warned that an explosive device had already been placed inside the polling station.
The DOJ press release explained that Wimbish has been charged with mailing a bomb threat, conveying false information about a bomb threat, mailing a threatening letter, and making false statements to the FBI.
Should he be found guilty of the charges, the Georgia poll worker faces a maximum penalty of 20 years behind bars in federal prison.