Take the Guessing Game out of your choices for Judges in Cuyahoga County
Catch yourself voting for a judge because of their name only… because you have no idea about which judges are which? Well, for the past few election cycles, Judge4Yourself.com has issued questionnaires to each of the Cuyahoga County judicial candidates and offered ratings of each candidate by four non-partisan associations: The Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, Cuyahoga Criminal Defense Lawyers, the Norman S. Minor Bar Association, and the Ohio Women’s Bar Association. In addition, candidates are interviewed, with all four associations participating, plus writing samples and comments from disciplinary authorities are collected.
Ratings range from Excellent to Good to Adequate to Not Recommended for each candidate from each association. It is surprising (and scary) how many “Not Recommended” candidates are often up for election. This guide helps you ferret those out. There’s also a “grade point” average score for each candidate, which combines numerically all four of the ratings, which also helps you decide.
In addition to the ratings, Judge4Yourself includes complete biography and even photos of each candidate. And in case you were wondering what each Court is responsible for, the site will tell you. Now there’s no reason to feel uninformed in the ballot box, or when filling out your mail-in ballot.
Don’t despair! End the guessing game in judicial elections in Cuyahoga. Visit the Judge4Yourself.com site and print out the ratings and use them to inform your election decisions.