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Daily Archive for November 5th, 2008

We at Minnesota Lawyer were interested in how members of the general public decide whom to cast their ballot for in judicial elections, so we sent intrepid associate editor Barbara Jones — along with our one-man video crew — on the road to find out. They stopped off at a polling place in downtown Minneapolis [...]

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The judicial election results were no surprise at the appellate level, with the incumbents winning handily in the two contested state Supreme Court races and one contested Court of Appeals races.
Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Paul Anderson skated by his challenger, 9th Judicial District magistrate Tim Tingelstad, by more than a 60/40 margin. A similar margin [...]

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I spent yesterday (and I mean the whole day — 5:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.) working as a Ramsey County election judge, and it was an eye-opening experience.
The precinct where I worked wasn’t even one of the busiest in town, attracting about 1,100 voters during the 13 hours the polls were open. But there was [...]

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The Judicial Election results — updated as they come in — are available on the Secretary of State’s website.
Click here to view.

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