Just checking the SMC Board of Elections website. Any idea why Dems and Reps got to vote for Circuit Court Judge but non-affiliateds did not?
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- Thread starter Ken King
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Because Maryland has closed primaries. The Circuit Judges are partisan positions and one must be affiliated to vote. Non-affiliated can only vote for non-partisan positions like school boards.
(Flashback to my time in South Korea) Ahhhh Missa Ken.. I understand. Please explain.
If Armitage and Lorenzini are both Reps, then the Dems wouldn't have voted for them. Vice versa, if they were both Dems then the Reps wouldn't have voted for them. If they were one of each, then they would have held off until the General and everyone would have had a chance to vote for them.
Why are Circuit Court judges special?
I know there are plenty of men that won't vote for her......
Circuit judges compete in a partisan primary for the Republican and/or Democratic nomination. Candidates may cross-file with both parties. The candidates who receive the most votes from each primary advance to the general election to compete against each other, as well as any minor party or independent candidates
Don't know, but its Orphan's Court too.
The Judicial branch of the Maryland government has decreed that judicial primary elections will be determined by party declared voters only, i.e., Republicans and Democrats. Unoffiliated voters do not get to vote for judicial positions during the primary. Call the state Supreme Court if you have a complaint.
HemiHauler
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Most people prefer closed elections. Otherwise, the Democrats can run a moderate candidate that most Republican voters can tolerate, but then the seat is still owned by the Democrat party.
Cross-filing huh. So since Lorenzini received the most vote in both primaries, she may/may not be the only name on the November ballot.
Circuit judges compete in a partisan primary for the Republican and/or Democratic nomination. Candidates may cross-file with both parties. The candidates who receive the most votes from each primary advance to the general election to compete against each other, as well as any minor party or independent candidates
Don't know, but its Orphan's Court too.
Not sure how that would work. I'll look around and see if that is even covered.
May or may not seems to be correct as there might be petition candidates or non-principal political party candidates who have received their party's nomination. As it stands Lorenzini is the only candidate that advances from the primary election.