An Indiana man pleaded guilty Tuesday to threatening to kill a Michigan elections clerk after the November 2020 election, federal prosecutors announced.<\/p>\n
A week after the presidential election that put Joe Biden in the White House, Andrew Nickels of Carmel, Ind., left a voice mail for Rochester Hills, Mich., Clerk Tina Barton in which he said she deserved a \u201cthroat to the knife\u201d because she had \u201cfrauded out America of a real election, \u201d the U.S. attorney\u2019s office for the Eastern District of Michigan said in a news release.<\/p>\n
Barton (R) was one of many election workers across the country who faced threats during and after the 2020 election, when many of President Donald Trump\u2019s supporters claimed the election was fraudulent. Few instances of fraud were found.<\/p>\n
Steven Scharg, an attorney representing Nickels, did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday afternoon. Scharg told the Detroit News that the case shows \u201chow mental health affects so many people.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nickels, 37, pleaded guilty to one count of making a threatening interstate communication, according to the news release, and he faces up to five years in prison. He is scheduled to be sentenced July 9.<\/p>\n
In a post on X, Barton called the plea \u201ca win for election officials all over the country.\u201d She added that the threats she received had \u201cpermanently impacted me and my family\u2019s lives.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI will never be able to turn back the clock and go back to living in a sense of peace and security as I had done prior to this incident, \u201cBarton wrote. \u201cI strongly believe that election officials should never be intimidated, threatened, or harassed for doing their jobs serving the public.\u201d<\/p>\n
News of Nickels\u2019 guilty plea came the same day as the presidential primaries in Michigan, where Trump, Biden and former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley are competing for the 2024 ballot, another race workers anticipate will bring more unrest.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
An Indiana man pleaded guilty Tuesday to threatening to kill a Michigan elections clerk after the November 2020 election, federal prosecutors announced. A week after the presidential election that put Joe Biden in the White House, Andrew Nickels of Carmel, Ind., left a voice mail for Rochester Hills, Mich., Clerk Tina Barton in which he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}