Op Ed: CI-132 and the Myth of Non-Partisanship

Whether you’re voting on a ballot issue or a candidate for office, my advice to you is always the same: cast an informed vote or skip it and move on. Voting because it’s “good citizenship” is, in fact, bad citizenship if you don’t know who or what you’re voting for.

Judge and Supreme Court justice races scream out as the biggest examples of voter ignorance – and thus, bad voting. We know this instinctively. Proponents of CI-132 (the measure banning judicial candidates from ever running on a party label) keep telling us “Judges should be elected based on their record and qualifications, not pol...