Updated from last month: The part of any ballot that finds me generally unprepared is
the judicial section, particularly the down ballot candidates. So I
consult the website Judge4yourself for
candidate ratings. The ratings also include endorsements by
cleveland.com, which is my rule-of-thumb for choosing the other (non-endorsed) candidate. However, this year, there are a couple of judicial candidates
who either wouldn't respond to any questions or who got such negatives from the
other resources that I would make an exception and vote for the
cleveland.com-endorsed candidate (i.e., J Synenberg and Wanda Jones).
Speaking for myself, I either print out the lists or jot the preferred names
down on a notepad, as I don't otherwise remember most of their names when I go
to vote.
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