Below is a link to an article on Cleveland.com concerning proposals that Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor made to the Ohio State Bar Association regarding reform of judicial elections. http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2013/05/ohio_chief_justice_maureen_oco.html
Among other things she recommends doing away with the present system whereby judicial candidates are nominated in party primaries but run non-partisan in the fall; increasing the length of judicial terms of office; increasing the number of years that a judicial candidate has to have been licensed to practice law before running for judicial office; holding judicial elections in odd-numbered years so that judicial races aren't overshadowed by races for Governor and President; and moving judicial races up toward the top of the ballot instead of having them at the bottom of the ballot as is presently done.
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