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A judicial retention vote differs from a regular election in that voters are not asked to choose from a list of candidates — the judges on the ballot do not have opponents. Rather, the voter chooses between electing the incumbent judge to a further term in office (i.e. voting in favor of "retention") or voting against.
Court of Appeals and Supreme Court judges up for retention on the Greene County ballot did not fall below 3.5-point averages in any of the categories. One Greene County judge stands out
Pennsylvania voters will be asked to consider giving two Superior Court judges new 10-year terms. These little-noticed ballot questions can have huge ramifications.
The 2023 Pennsylvania elections took place on November 7, 2023, to fill judicial positions, allow judicial retention votes, and fill numerous county, local and municipal offices, the most prominent being the Mayor of Philadelphia. The necessary primary elections were held on May 16, 2023. In addition, special elections for legislative vacancies ...
That was in 2005, when Justice Russell Nigro lost retention in the fallout over legislation that awarded pay raises to state lawmakers and judges. In a retention election, citizens vote “yes ...
Legislatively-referred amendment: Changes the deadlines for filing initiative and referendum petition signatures and judicial retention notice deadlines to remove one week in order to allow one extra week for the secretary of state to certify ballot order and content and election officials' deadline to transmit ballots.
According to the state, the retention process is mean to help judges decide cases "fairly and impartially, free from campaign finance considerations and without influence by partisan politics."
Labeled as too old, a judicial activist and a liberal, Kauger’s tenure on the bench fell to a wave of harsh political advertising funded by two dark money political action committees, including ...