How many actually vote on issue of retaining Judges?

[HoughMade]

Ballotpedia. A fair amount of information on judges.

Judges are a tough one, though, even for me. For the most part state court judges (in Indiana at least), especially trial court judges, are not applying much of a judicial philosophy. They are just applying the law to the facts before them. Sometimes they get it right, sometimes wrong (IMO), but with most of them its tough to see too much of a pattern.

With some, you can...and with state supreme court justices it's more clear, but it is nowhere near as clear as on federal appellate courts.

 

[bwframe]

Fired 'em all...

 

[alabasterjar]

If they’re in office, I always vote to boot. Like a refresh button.

This...i Always vote no on judges...

 

[Ingomike]

I do, did some research before hand. Anyone else have less machines but additional precincts added? A lot of unhappy people waiting 3-4 hours to vote. Consolidate locations and cut machines in half, Not real smart...

I Have hread heard about how bad it is over there.

 

[NKBJ]

Voted to swap out the judges.
Robes get sticky just like underwear.

 

[ziggy]

Judges Melissa May and Margaret G. Robb have each been there for more than 20 years so I voted NOT to retain them. Others, yes.

 

[Chalky]

I Have hread heard about how bad it is over there.

Yeah, county election board messed up bad! Now up to 6 hours is what I am hearing from friends, guess I should be thankful. Lol

 

[rlw9337]

I searched around and found links to the trial records and read some of the rational for their decisions. I read a couple for each judge and determine if I think their decision is reasonable.

 

[IndyDave1776]

I voted to keep them. I don't want anyone appointed by our jackass of a governor.

 

[semperfi211]

I don't know anything about them and always vote no on all of them.

 

[Ark]

In practical terms it's pretty difficult to access information to make an informed decision unless you have very specific cases you're interested in. It's very hard to quickly access a picture of a given judge's overall trend. There's also quite a lot of them on many ballots.

I guess you can go by who is in power to do the appointing and who appointed them in the first place. Again, more work to look up. It's not a great system but at least there's some direct democracy recourse if a judge does something especially egregious on the bench.