SEATTLE, Wash. -- It came in the mail this week: an 18-inch ballot, the longest we've seen in a while.
With 14 measures, some of them pretty complicated, people are already feeling voter fatique.
"The problem with me is that long before this I've felt tired. I've gotten to the point where I've kind of just given up," said voter David Gower.
Imagine how Sharon Rodgers feels hearing this.
"I was looking through it and knew there were going to be a lot of things on the ballot," said Rodgers, "but I didn't realize that we'd go all through the first side and all the way to the back and we would be the absolute last item on the back of the ballot."
Rodgers runs Schools First, an organization pushing a Seattle School levy called "Proposition 1."
"I hope people will read the issues and vote for the proposition first," she said.
"I think with the complexity of these issues if they read it first, then go through carefully and vote that may help. It helped me," said Sherril Huff with King County Elections. Huff says if you haven't already, you should get two voter pamphlets to help sort out the issues. One will explain county issues and the other will explain statewide races.
"It's pretty thick? It is and I gotta admit I wish there as a better resource," said voter Sunny Hwang.
Robin Woodman isn't detered by the long ballot. She'll do what she does every election.
"I don't look at it for a little while and then like everyone I fiture it out at the last minute and then mark it off and send it," said Woodman.
Both the ballots and the voter pamphlets were mailed out this week. There are now 11 drop box locations. For more information on locations: http://www.kingcounty.gov/elections/voting/ballotdropboxes.aspx
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