by Ty Tagami | Capitol Beat News Service
ATLANTA – A former Macon area poll worker pleaded guilty in federal court Friday to mailing a bomb threat to a local elections office and admitted lying about it to the FBI.
Nicholas Wimbish, 25, of Milledgeville, pleaded guilty to conveying false information about a bomb threat and making hoaxes, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Georgia. He faces up to five years in prison followed by three years of supervised release plus a fine of up to a quarter million dollars.
Wimbish worked at the Jones County Elections Office in Gray. After a disagreement with a voter in October, he wrote and then mailed a bomb threat to the polling place pretending to be that voter, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said, adding that Wimbish admitted he intended the letter to appear as if it had come from the voter as a threat to himself and his fellow poll workers.
The typewritten letter contained phrases such as “young liberal woke idiot” and “woke liberal fraudsters,” saying the author knew where the poll workers lived and that the men would get a “beatdown” and a “firing squad” in a fight while the women would be subjected to “rage rape,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
Wimbish handwrote a note at the bottom that said a “boom toy” was in an early voting place and later admitted that he knew the term was slang for a bomb, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
In addition to his own admissions, investigators found the letter on Wimbish’s computer, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. He pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Marc Treadwell and is scheduled for sentencing on May 13.
