Voting on Arizona judges: Here's what to know on all 55 up for retention in Maricopa County

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Maricopa County voters will see 52 judges on their ballot, from the state Supreme Court, Court of Appeals and the Maricopa County Superior Court.

On the Arizona Court of Appeals, five judges are up for retention: Cynthia Bailey, Michael Brown, Kent Cattani, David Gass and Steven Williams.To aid voters, the Arizona Commission on Judicial Performance Review evaluates judges and justices.

The commission surveys jurors, witnesses, attorneys, judges, court staff and parties to legal action about each judge. Based on those results, the commission then rates judges across five criteria: Judicial Performance Review Commission Chairman Mike Hellon explained the panel has a"shopping list of criteria," including legal knowledge, legal interpretations,"if the judge appears to be biased for racial, sexual, economic reasons and age," and"communicating completely and effectively with the people before him."

“The challenge with the Judicial Performance Review scores is that those scores primarily are based on surveys," she said, adding,"And sometimes it's a very small percentage that fill out those surveys.”highlighting some judges based on a series of questions about their judicial philosophy. "Most of them do not answer those questions — for whatever reasons they choose not to — and so that restricts what we try to do," Herrod said.

 

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Get rid of them all. New governor will appoint new ones

I voted to only keep ones nominated by democrats.

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