Three Republican Ohio Supreme Court justices who are on the Nov. 8 ballot have questioned the ethics of the court’s involvement in a judicial election education project that will feature them and their challengers, among other voter information
Voters can use the website to. Judges on the ballot can answer questionnaires with biographical information, which get populated on the website after they submit online forms, although it’s months before the General Election and few judges have uploaded information yet.
However, a good government advocate questioned whether the three judges are trying to raise ethical questions to get ahead of criticism they face over their own judicial ethics., even though his father is a member of the Ohio Redistricting Commission. Thus far, the younger DeWine has sided with the Redistricting Commission in all the Supreme Court decisions.
Turcer generally is impressed with the Ohio Judicial Votes Count website, which was newly launched this election cycle. She said that voters often skip judicial races, due to lack of education about the candidates. Judicial Votes Count provides good information not just about upcoming judicial races, but about how the judiciary works overall, she said.
Judicial Votes Count began in 2015 as a project at the University of Akron’s Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics, with a number of partners, including the Ohio Bar Association, Ohio League of Women Voters and print and television news organizations, said Lyn Tolan, the Ohio Supreme Court’s public information director, who supervises the court’s Office of Civic Education, which is managing Judicial Votes Count.
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