By According to court documents, a liberal poll worker in Georgia allegedly issued a bomb threat to frame a voter with whom he had a dispute at the polling site. On October 16, Nicholas Wimbish, 25, of Milledgeville, Georgia, was arrested and charged with several offenses, including mailing a bomb threat, conveying false information regarding a bomb threat, sending a threatening letter, and making false statements to the FBI.
Wimbish was employed at the Jones County Elections Office in Gray, Georgia, approximately 88 miles southeast of Atlanta. The FBI’s Atlanta Field Office is conducting the investigation, and if convicted, Wimbish could face up to 25 years in prison.
USA Today reported that the Jones County Elections Office received a threatening letter, which was typed, on Oct. 22, 2024, via USPS, according to court documents acquired by the USA TODAY. It was addressed by hand to the Elections Superintendent.
The return address stated a “Jones County Voter” sent the letter, which was postmarked in Atlanta,Georgia, on Oct. 18.
Wimbish is believed to have written the letter the day after he allegedly got into a verbal altercation with a voter, who was not identified, after they complained that Wimbish and another poll worker were distracting voters waiting in line for early voting with their conversation.
“Based on my investigation, I believe that Wimbish conducted the Google search on his own name to confirm what information was available about him and other poll workers online,” James Maxwell, a special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, wrote in the criminal complaint filed against Wimbish. “I believe that Wimbish wrote the letter pretending to be [the voter,] because the letter references Wimbish and [the other poll worker] ‘distracting voters,’ the same complaint that [the voter] voiced the day before the letter was dated.”
The plot appears to have been a hoax in hopes of portraying conservative voters as violent. The day after a threatening letter was received, Wimbish informed the FBI that he believed the individual he had the altercation with had written and sent it.
The letter, addressed to Wimbish, labeled him a “young liberal woke idiot” and accused him of attempting to “influence people’s votes in line.” It also included a menacing warning, stating that the sender was “on the hunt” for the poll worker Wimbish had been speaking with at the time of the incident. The letter further mentioned two other female poll workers, accusing one of “messing up” the sender’s ballot.
In a particularly alarming statement, the letter warned, “Your woke liberal should look over their shoulder. I have to do whatever it takes for [an unspecified candidate] to win Georgia.”
The incident appears to be part of the growing trend on the left to perpetrate hoaxes that portray themselves as victims. In 2019, a political scientist found that fewer than 1 in 3 of 346 such allegations was genuine.
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