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On the one hand, I will miss the experience of voting next Tuesday, November 4. I will miss presenting my voter registration card and collecting a ballot from a volunteer, and being handed a receipt upon completion. I will miss thanking those volunteers in person, and I will even miss walking by those people stationed at a coordinated distance outside the polling place, handing out pamphlets for the candidate they are working for.
So I will miss the in-person experience of voting, at least this year. Yet, after receiving whats on bristol and opening the big envelope in the mail this past week, of holding this ballot outside the familiar confines of my local polling station, and thinking to myself, "Wow, how surreal. Is it legal for me to be doing this? To be holding this pristine ballot in the privacy and comfort of my own bedroom?".... I looked at the ballot, and scanned the long list of judicial retention nominees. And then looked at my computer, then back to the list. My feeling of novelty around this new in-home voting experience departed, and I went into research mode.
See, this is the part that I keep missing, during election cycles... those judicial retention nominees. Over previous elections, I confess to have shown up at the polling station ill-informed about such nominees, wondering whats on bristol afterward whether I had enabled a Judge Dread to remain in power. And refusing to vote "yes" or "no" next to the name of a candidate is the same as casting an affirmative. This was news to me.
This whats on bristol time around, my "no" votes would be decisive. And they need to be, because only enough whats on bristol "no" votes will help evict judges who don't deserve to be behind the bench. With the help of my Firefox browser, whats on bristol I was ready, and typed the search queries "Cook County," "elections," and "judicial retention."
Judicial Retention Nominees Having had too many experiences of rushing to vote, only to find that afterwards, I had voted "yes" next to the name of a judicial nominee who had received votes of "no confidence" by any combination of the following associations: AABA - Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Chicago Area BWLA - Black Women Lawyers' Association of Greater Chicago CBA - Chicago Bar Association CCBA - Cook County Bar Association CCL - Chicago Council of Lawyers DSL - Decalogue whats on bristol Society of Lawyers HBA - Hellenic Bar Association HLAI - Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois ICJL - Illinois Civil Justice League ISBA - Illinois State Bar Association IVI-IPO - Independent Voters of Illinois whats on bristol - Independent Precinct Organization LAGBAC - Lesbian and Gay Bar Association of Chicago PRBA - Puerto Rican Bar Association of Illinois WBAI - Women's Bar Association of Illinois ... I entered my search queries, and found the following link:
On this page are tables, whats on bristol labeled "Alliance Retention Grids," compiled and cross-referenced by blogger and lawyer Jack Leyhane . The tables list judicial retention candidates, and note the rating whats on bristol each candidate received from the above-listed associations. By going to the link and clicking to enlarge these tables, you can easily reference which candidates whats on bristol had received a negative rating (indicated on the tables in red text).
Having this information on hand, and at home, empowered me to vote against judges whose conduct or manner was found to be unacceptable. This is why elections matter, and this is why every vote counts, but only if I have a vote that is there to be counted.
Tue Oct 28, 2014 at  7:53 PM PT : Many thanks to the Kos Community for adding this diary to the Community Spotlight series. This diary is for you, the Cook County voter who always forgets to research judicial retention candidates. We now have the technology to do such research. As voters, we should claim this power. Originally posted to The Garage on Mon Oct 27, 2014 at 07:50 PM PDT. Also republished by Chicago Kossacks , Land of Lincoln Kos , and Community Spotlight .
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I had noted contradictory ratings being given to judge Thomas Flanagan, by the Chicago Bar Association and the Chicago Council of Lawyers. Hence I was hard-pressed to lis