If you received one of the first initial mail ballots in Washoe county, you may have seen the word "false" printed on it.
This raised some concerns.
The "false" error was printed on 32,000 initial return envelopes.
Voters can still use their ballots as normal, and it won’t affect their vote.
It was a printing error from the vendor the Washoe County Registrar of Voters office uses to print out mail ballots.
The error was already identified and the next about 300,000 ballots that were sent out and did not have the mistake.
The county says the ballots did not go to voters with a specific political party.
We’ll explain essentially how it happened.
If a voter receives, what is called a provisional ballot, it means that they are required to provide additional identification before voting.
If they did have to do that, the return envelope would say "true" in a hidden "ID required" field where "false" was printed.
For voters not needing to provide additional identification, nothing would appear.
However, there were no provisional ballots sent out, meaning no Washoe County voter needed to provide more identification information.
The county sent a statement, in part, it says, "the error was promptly identified and corrected in subsequent batches and did not affect voter registration records, identification requirements, the validity of the ballots or voters' ability to cast their ballots. We are working with our printing vendor to prevent similar errors in future elections."
The office says if people are concerned, they can contact their office.
