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U.S. Department of Justice

Georgia Poll Worker Arrested for Making Bomb Threat to Election Workers

U.S. Department of Justice
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Nicholas Wimbish , 25 , of Milledgeville , Georgia , was serving as a poll worker at the Jones County Elections Office on Oct. 16 when he allegedly had a verbal altercation with a voter.

He conducted online research to determine what information about himself would be publicly available.

The following day, he mailed a letter addressed to the Georgia Elections Superintendent , purportedly from a “ Jones County Voter ” The letter was allegedly drafted to make it appear as if it came from the voter.