(Reuters) - A Georgia poll worker was arrested on Monday on U.S. charges that he sent a letter threatening to bomb election workers that he wrote to appear as if it came from a voter in the presidential election battleground state.

Wimbish allegedly ended the letter with a handwritten note stating, "PS boom toy in early vote place, cigar burning, be safe."

A Georgia poll worker was arrested Monday after mailing a threatening letter to an election official and trying to make it look as if the note came from a voter, federal prosecutors said. The Justice Department said Nicholas Wimbish,

Federal authorities arrested a poll worker in Georgia Monday after he mailed a bomb threat to the Jones County Elections Superintendent.

The note, sent in October, had vulgar comments about women and warned about a “boom toy,” the U.S. Department of Justice said.

A Georgia poll worker in Jones County was arrested Monday for allegedly mailing a letter threatening poll workers with a “beatdown,” rape and a bomb threat, according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

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.