Woman pleads guilty to threatening Michigan 2020 election official

A New Hampshire lady pleaded guilty Thursday to sending out a series of threatening texts to a Michigan election authorities in the wake of the 2020 election, according to the Justice Department.

Katelyn Jones, 25, made several dangers to the chair of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers in November 2020, according to court files. The board supervises elections in Wayne County, Michigan, which ended up being a focus of some conspiracy theories after the governmental election.

Jones confronts ten years in jail when she is sentenced in July, according to a press release from the department.

In one series of text, Jones informed the election authorities that they had actually made a “severe error” and sent out graphic images of a dead body and images of the authorities’s kid, according to court files. Amongst numerous other messages, Jones likewise informed the authorities that “Fucking with our elections is TERRORISM, and us Americans plainly do not endure terrorist[s] so yes you need to hesitate, your child needs to hesitate, therefore need to [your husband].”.

Jones likewise threatened the election authorities and their household on Instagram, court files state. Under one photo of the household, for instance, Jones apparently commented: “Your Child is stunning” which it would “be a pity if something occurred to her.”.

After she was detained, Jones apparently informed detectives that she threatened the authorities since she was mad that they were disrupting the election.