As New Yorkers head to the polls Tuesday, they'll get a two-page ballot for the first time.

The pages are connected at one end with a perforated edge, kind of like sheets of toilet paper. All together, the ballot is almost three feet long. Voters will have to separate its pages along the perforated edge then feed both sheets into the scanner.

Members of the WNYC newsroom checking out the ballot for the first time:

Board of Elections Commissioners tried to keep it to one page, but because of the ballot questions this year, had to extend onto another, officials said. The city switched to a paper ballot system in 2010 and until now, they've managed to crowd everything on one page.

The commissioners also green-lit the purchase of an increased number of ballots this year, WNYC earlier reported, for fear that voters might struggle with the two-page ballot either with ripping or scanning, and might have to redo it.