Georgia poll worker arrested over bomb threat as security bolstered across U.S.
Source: Axios
10 hours ago
A Georgia poll worker was arrested and charged with mailing a bomb threat to election workers on Monday, the Department of Justice announced.
The big picture: The arrest comes as police step up security around the White House and Vice President Harris' residence in D.C. and National Guard units in several states and local law enforcement agencies prepare for possible Election Day violence.
Unprecedented steps are being taken to protect election workers and ballots amid rising concern about voter intimidation and other threats, as the Proud Boys and other Trump-supporting extremist groups signal they'll be at polling sites on Tuesday. The Justice Department will monitor polls in multiple states for compliance with federal voting rights laws on Election Day.
Driving the news: Nicholas Wimbish, 25, of Milledgeville, Georgia, is accused of mailing a letter addressed to the Jones County elections superintendent on Oct. 17, purportedly from a "Jones County Voter" one day after he "allegedly had a verbal altercation with a voter," per a DOJ statement.
Prosecutors allege this letter stated that Wimbish had "give[n] me hell" and that he was "conspiring votes" and that it made threats against him and others to "look over their shoulder" as the "voter" knew "where they go" and that the writer had "found home voting addresses for all them." The letter claimed "young men will get beatdown if they fight me" and "will get the treason punishment by firing squad if they fight back," while also threatening "rage rape" against the "ladies." "The letter concluded with a handwritten note, 'PS boom toy in early vote place, cigar burning, be safe,'" the DOJ alleges.
Read more: https://www.axios.com/2024/11/05/election-security-poll-workers-bomb-threat
JohnSJ
(96,665 posts)Aviation Pro
(13,498 posts)Another Call of Duty incel.
Fuck him, not literally because no woman will have him, but figuratively.
Dem4life1234
(1,905 posts)Some women hate men, but they will never be violent towards them, they simply avoid them.
But a man who has issues with women is a societal menace, these types of cretins are violent as hell.
Clouds Passing
(2,383 posts)IbogaProject
(3,686 posts)Treat as a terrorist and search deep and wide around their life and associates.
GreenWave
(9,269 posts)Victory. And over a deranged poll worker to boot!
Lovie777
(15,078 posts)hopefully in the near future the Harris/Walz win coupled with more saner politicians can mend some of the fences.
cstanleytech
(27,075 posts)relayerbob
(7,038 posts)Another idiot making our fine state look bad.