Thousands of voters in Washoe County, Nevada, received mail-in ballot return envelopes that had the word “FALSE” written on them, county officials confirmed in a statement to The Hill.
The disclosure came from George Guthrie, a spokesperson for the Washoe County Registrar of Voters, who told The Hill that the affected envelopes were “not limited to voters of any particular political party.” The available excerpt of the statement did not include further details about how the markings appeared, who made them, or whether any ballots were rejected as a result.
The report says the marking was applied to the return envelopes sent to voters, but the cause and scope beyond the description of “thousands” remain unclear in the material supplied. The Hill obtained the county statement and quoted Guthrie directly; additional passages of the county communication were not included in the excerpt provided.
Officials in Washoe County and the Secretary of State’s office typically oversee mail-in voting processes, including ballot distribution and return-envelope handling, but the supplied material does not say which offices — if any beyond the registrar’s spokesperson — have been notified or what remedial steps, if any, will be taken. No claim in the excerpt attributes the inscriptions to a specific individual or group.
Because the source material available to this article is limited to the excerpted statement to The Hill, key questions about motive, how widespread the problem is beyond the “thousands” described, and whether any votes were affected remain unanswered. The initial reporting and the county statement to The Hill are the basis for this account.
