351: Unprecedented

Hello, sisters-in-law.

I'm filling out the nonpartisan office's judicial for the California ballot for the election coming up.

I have no idea who these judges are.

How do I know to retain them or not? Thank you so much.

Yeah, that's such a great question.

And, you know, I think, Kim, you probably get this, too.

As lawyers, we get calls or texts all the time from our friends saying, I don't know, who should I vote for for judge? You know, a great resource that I like to send people to is vote411.org.

That is a website that is created by the League of Women Voters.

You know, their whole mission is about providing information for voters, you know, started when women got the right to vote, but certainly they provide a service to all voters.

And they send out questionnaires to all of the candidates on the ballot.

You can actually get your ballot there.

And you can find every candidate on your ballot and every ballot proposal.

And then you can click a link and you can find the answers they have posted to the questionnaire.

Now, some judges don't answer their questionnaires, so that makes things a little bit difficult.

But that alone says something about a judge, right, that they did not provide information to the League of Women Voters.

So that, to me, is a great place to start if you want to find out not only about judges, but, you know, school board and library board and Some of the other things you might not know so much about.

Or you can call your friends who are lawyers.

They're going to know a lot about these people who are judges.

You know, the other thing I find can be useful is if you see a neighbor or friend or someone whose judgment you trust with a lawn sign, you might ask them, hey, I see you've got a lawn sign for Judge So-and-So.

Can you tell me why or what do you know about Judge So-and-So? And chances are, if they've got a lawn sign out, it's because they know something about them and they support that person either about their work or about their character.

So those are a few ideas for finding out about those judicial races that a lot of us don't know as much about as some of the races higher up on the ballot.

Barb, that's a really good tip.

And one thing I like about that, too, is that it actually gets you talking to your neighbors, which I always find like I'm generally a shy person.

I'm not going to go up to somebody and start a conversation.

I'm very socially awkward.

Hello, sisters-in-law.

I'm filling out the nonpartisan office's judicial for the California ballot for the election coming up.

I have no idea who these judges are.

How do I know to retain them or not? Thank you so much.

Yeah, that's such a great question.

And, you know, I think, Kim, you probably get this, too.

As lawyers, we get calls or texts all the time from our friends saying, I don't know, who should I vote for for judge? You know, a great resource that I like to send people to is vote411.org.

That is a website that is created by the League of Women Voters.

You know, their whole mission is about providing information for voters, you know, started when women got the right to vote, but certainly they provide a service to all voters.

And they send out questionnaires to all of the candidates on the ballot.

You can actually get your ballot there.

And you can find every candidate on your ballot and every ballot proposal.

And then you can click a link and you can find the answers they have posted to the questionnaire.

Now, some judges don't answer their questionnaires, so that makes things a little bit difficult.

But that alone says something about a judge, right, that they did not provide information to the League of Women Voters.

So that, to me, is a great place to start if you want to find out not only about judges, but, you know, school board and library board and Some of the other things you might not know so much about.

Or you can call your friends who are lawyers.

They're going to know a lot about these people who are judges.

You know, the other thing I find can be useful is if you see a neighbor or friend or someone whose judgment you trust with a lawn sign, you might ask them, hey, I see you've got a lawn sign for Judge So-and-So.

Can you tell me why or what do you know about Judge So-and-So? And chances are, if they've got a lawn sign out, it's because they know something about them and they support that person either about their work or about their character.

So those are a few ideas for finding out about those judicial races that a lot of us don't know as much about as some of the races higher up on the ballot.

Barb, that's a really good tip.

And one thing I like about that, too, is that it actually gets you talking to your neighbors, which I always find like I'm generally a shy person.

I'm not going to go up to somebody and start a conversation.

I'm very socially awkward.