A man has been charged after allegedly threatening voters of Republican candidate Donald Trump.
The US Department of Justice announced today suspect Issac Sissel from Ann Arbor, Michigan, allegedly threatened to carry out a mass shooting against conservative voters in the result of a Trump victory.
In a statement, from the US Attorney's Office said the 25-year-old was charged today in a federal criminal complaint with sending a threatening communication.
Court records filed by the FBI National Threat Operations Center in West Virginia on November 2 said it had received reports of the threat.
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The threat said in part: "I shall carry out an attack against conservative christan, (sic) filth in the event trump wins the election.
"I have a stolen ar15 and a target I refuse to name so I can continue to get away with my plans. Without a specific victim or ability to find the place I hid the gun, there’s not a thing the FBI can do until I complete the attack."
Sissell was slated to make an appearance in a federal court earlier this afternoon local time.
The FBI Detroit Office is carrying out an investigation into the case. The US Justice Department statement added: "This case is part of the Justice Department’s Election Threats Task Force.
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A spokesperson added: "Created by Attorney General Merrick B. Garland and launched by Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco in June 2021, the task force has led the department’s efforts to address threats of violence against election workers, and to ensure that all election workers, whether elected, appointed, or volunteer, are able to do their jobs free from threats and intimidation."
"The task force engages with the election community and state and local law enforcement to assess allegations and reports of threats against election workers, and has investigated and prosecuted these matters where appropriate, in partnership with FBI Field Offices and US Attorneys’ Offices throughout the country.
"Three years after its formation, the task force is continuing this work and supporting the US Attorneys’ Offices and FBI Field Offices nationwide as they carry on the critical work that the task force has begun."
It comes as a Georgia poll worker was arrested on US 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.
Federal prosecutors said Nicholas Wimbish, 25, had been serving as a poll worker at the Jones County Elections Office in Gray, Georgia, on October 16 when he got into a verbal altercation with a voter.
The next day, Wimbish mailed a letter to the county's elections superintendent that was drafted to appear as if it came from that same voter, prosecutors said.
The letter complained that Wimbish was a "closeted liberal election fraudster" who had been distracting voters in line to cast ballots, according to charging papers.
Authorities said the letter, signed by a "Jones county voter," said Wimbish and others "should look over their shoulder" and warned that people would "learn a violent lesson about stealing our elections!" Prosecutors said the letter ended with a handwritten note: "PS boom toy in early vote place, cigar burning, be safe."
