Georgia poll worker faces 25 years for fake bomb threat, promising ‘beatdown’ and ‘rage rape’

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Six months ago, Georgia College and State University celebrated its recent graduate Nicholas Wimbish for managing a voting precinct at the Jones County Senior Center. 

He had earned an “Election Administration Certificate” through exhaustive polling, voting administrative work and classes on U.S. Constitution, election laws, policymaking, democracy and Southern politics, the school said.

Now Wimbish is facing 25 years in prison for “mailing a bomb threat, conveying false information about a bomb threat, mailing a threatening letter, and making false statements to the FBI” related to his work as a Jones County poll worker, the Justice Department announced Monday.

After a “verbal altercation with a voter” Oct. 16, Wimbish researched how much information about him is public and then mailed a letter to the election superintendent in the guise of a “Jones County Voter,” according to DOJ, whose Election Threats Task Force brought the case.

The purported voter said Wimbish had “give[n] me hell,” was “conspiring votes” and “distracting voters from concentrating,” then warned Wimbish and colleagues to “look over their shoulder … because I found home voting addresses for all them.” The letter threatened to “beatdown [sic]” young men and “rage rape” the “ladies,” concluding with a handwritten note alluding to a bomb: “PS boom toy in early vote place, cigar burning, be safe.”