Kevin's Weblog

Measure 40 is not one that I have a strong immediate reaction to. To begin with, the whole electing judges thing has always felt weird to me. I never know who to vote for, and I usually just abstain. I’ve never given much thought to the exact mechanism by which judges ought to be elected, as a result. Since my default position on ballot measures is “no”, that’s where I’d generally lean here. Reinforcing that is the fact that the motivation behind this measure seems to be that some people don’t like the current batch of judges, and want to change the judges by changing the rules of the elections; which is a sort of thing that I generally disapprove of.