King County Offers a Video Voters Guide

Updated: King County Department of Elections informs Kirkland Patch that the videos are not posted in Chinese, as had been stated in the orginal press release from King County. A corrected version of the information appears below.

King County voters working on their November general election ballots now have an additional resource for information about races and local measures. King County TV has made the Video Voters Guide for the Tuesday, Nov. 8 election available both on TV and online.

King County TV will carry the Video Voters Guide at various times on Comcast and Broadstripe Cable 22. You can find specific viewing times at www.kingcounty.gov/kctv. The programs are also carried on the Seattle Channel and many local government access channels on Cable 21.

The programs are also available online at: www.kingcounty.gov/kctv/vvg. 

Viewers can receive information on candidates for:

• Metropolitan King County Council,
• King County Assessor,
• King County Director of Elections

The program also includes guides to Seattle City Council, Seattle School Board, and Port of Seattle Commissioners races, and Seattle’s Proposition 1 (Families and Education Levy) and Seattle Transportation Benefit District Proposition 1 (Vehicle License Fee).

Each of the statements is up to two-minutes long and unedited. The candidates and issues appear onscreen in the same order as they do on the ballot.

The Video Voters is a collaboration of King County TV, the Seattle Channel and the Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission.

King County TV provides a transparent view into the operations of County government and the issues affecting our region. It can be seen in 450,000 cable households throughout King County.

--Information from King County