WEST PALM BEACH — Deputies arrested a man accused of yelling anti-Semitic and racial slurs at a woman campaigning outside of an early voting site in Loxahatchee, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.
Nicholas Farley, 30, faces up to 10 years in prison on two charges related to voter intimidation and interference. According to his arrest report, Farley yelled obscenities while circling the parking lot of the Acreage Branch Library in a white van on Thursday, Oct. 24.
When questioned by deputies, Farley denied knowing that early voting was taking place. He then volunteered the name of a pro-Nazi website and launched into a racist lecture, repeating and supplementing the slurs witnesses accused him of using in the library’s parking lot.
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Farley’s arresting officer said Farley “appeared to enjoy” talking about his hatred of the Jewish and African American communities.