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Archive Home > 2011 > November > 25 > Judicial elections are not broken

Judicial elections are not broken


November 25, 2011

Rep. Chris Garrett, D-Lake Oswego, wants Oregon to drop its system of directly elected state judges and move to a “merit-based appointment system.”

He wrote in The Oregonian that it’s only a matter of time before unrestricted money flowing into elections infects and undermines the judicial....

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