Have You Voted Your Ballot? It’s Due May 24 [VIDEO]

If you have questions and concerns about your primary election ballot you're not alone. Yakima County Auditor Charles Ross says many people have been calling with questions about a part of the ballot that asks you to mark a party.

Ross says people don't like the fact that you must pick a party and then pick a candidate in that party. Ross says it's just the way election laws are written.

"This really where the parties gain their information about who is in the party," Ross explains. "It's the way the election is set up."

He says all the information is destroyed and the rule doesn't apply in the November General Election. Ross says the bigger question is whether the state should be funding a primary that is basically a barometer for a political party.

Had the primary been earlier in the year, he adds, it would have made a more significant impact. Ross says it could be viewed by some as a waste of tax payer dollars.

Your ballot is due on May 24. About 5,000 ballots have been returned since late last week.