From: Robison, Mark <MDRobison@reno.gannett.

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Sent: 21 March 2022 20:27
To: Drysdale, Bethany
Subject: RE: Unsolicited fact-check
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From: Drysdale, Bethany &lt;BDrysdale@washoecounty.gov&gt;

Sent: Monday, March 21, 2022 1:22 PM
To: Robison, Mark &lt;MDRobison@reno.gannett.com&gt;
Subject: Unsolicited fact-check

Hi Mark – I don’t know if you’re still tracking claims by Mr. Beadles or if you even want unsolicited fact-
checking on my part. But he called out the RGJ and Washoe County in his most recent blog post, so I did
some proactive fact-checking of my own and wanted to share with you in case you’re keeping track.

Mr. Beadles claims that Washoe County has added more than 100k new registered voters and only
removed 58k, which would bring us to 346k voters now. He is correct, but incomplete.

Washoe County has received more than 100k voter registrations since the last election, but they’re not
all new voter registrations. In fact, brand-new voters only total 31,290 and the rest (78,204) are updates
to existing registrations. Additionally, he is basing the 58,667 that have been removed with a registration
date between that time period (Nov 2020 – Feb 2022) and not considering voters that have a registration
date older that may have been removed.

With the actual number of brand-new voters added (and the full number of voters removed) we get to
the number stated on our website: 307,449.

Thanks,
Bethany
Bethany Drysdale
Media and Communications Manager | Office of the County Manager
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