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One of the main reasons critics offer for their opposition to Merit Selection is their belief in allowing people to vote.  This argument ignores the facts that implementing Merit Selection requires a vote by the people and that Merit Selection involves voting in retention elections.  In addition, the data unfortunately shows that people actually don’t vote in judicial elections.

The Chicago Tribune reports that Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election this year, only 18.4% of the voters participated.  That’s even less than the 19% who voted in last year’s Wisconsin high court race.

Pennsylvania is holding judicial elections this year.  Traditionally, voter turn-out in judicial elections here has been very low.  What will our voter turn-out look like?

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