My friend Steve passed this link along via the group he created on Facebook, Cook County – Know Your Judicial Candidates. We’re in early voting now and the election for these judges is February 2nd, and typically, most people vote at random if they vote at all.
Which is pretty terrifying, when you consider that in some way, most of the justices on the Supreme Court started out by either being appointed or elected locally. So let’s not leave this important decision totally to chance, shall we? Because they decided that corporations have First Amendment rights, and so can that mean that they potentially have Second Amendment rights, or the right to… vote?
I want to thank those of you who have used www.voteforjudges.org, a program of the Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice, to receive nonpartisan information about Cook County judicial elections. The next judicial election is February 2, 2010 and early voting begins January 11, 2010. Once again, www.voteforjudges.org posts the judicial evaluation results distributed by a variety of bar associations as well as information about judicial elections found in the media. Voting for judges is an important part of good government. We are glad that you are using www.voteforjudges.org to help you vote for qualified judges.
Judges make all kinds of decisions, from the very personal, such as child custody decisions, to those with much broader impact. The decisions that judges make affect our lives, both directly and indirectly, often for many years to come. We never know when a judge we vote for today will make a decision that will affect your life and the lives of your family and friends.