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frazzled

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1. I used bar association ratings from Vote for Judges
Mon Oct 19, 2020, 10:45 AM
Oct 2020

which provides the ratings from 12 Bar Associations Illinois, Cook County, and Chicago. Arab American Bar Association (AABAR), Asian American Bar Association of Greater Chicago (AABA), Black Women Lawyers' Association of Greater Chicago (BWLA), Chicago Council of Lawyers (CCL), Cook County Bar Association (CCBA), Decalogue Socity of Lawyers (DSL), Hellenic Bar Association of Illinois (HBA), Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois (HLAI), Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA), Lesbian and Gay Bar Association of Chicago (LAGBAC), Puerto Rican Bar Association of Illinois (PRBA), and Women's Bar Association of Illinois (WBAI).

You can look at individual ratings, or a composite

http://voteforjudges.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Alliance-2020-General-Election-Ratings-10.13.pdf

http://voteforjudges.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Nov-2020-Alliance-Judicial-Ballot-Summary-10.14.pdf

There were 79 judicial races/retentions on our ballots. It took for f ever to fill in each blank. In the end, it's a fool's errand, because most people don't even vote this. There has never (I believe) been a judge removed due to one of these election ballots. Also, in Cook County, there is usually only one candidate for judicial races, always Democratic (which doesn't mean they're good judges). For the retention questions, no affiliations are given.

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