u/cdrcdr12

In my state, judicial and local office elections are non-partisan, meaning that the ballot doesn't specify whether the candidates running for the position are Republican or Democratic leaning, though if one investigates the candidates, it is easy to figure out if major democrats or republicans endorse them or if they have a clear liberal or conservative bias. The problem is that a lot of people go to vote on election day without having done any research, so they end up just picking the incumbent or the name they like better.

I saw a headline that 30% of Democratic voters voted for the Republican-appointed judicial nominees in last night's primary election, likely because they had the incumbent title next to their name.

The Democratic party should make a page where you put in your address and get a sample ballot, that adds a 'Republican', 'Republican leaning', 'moderate', 'Democrat', 'Democrat leaning' label next to each candidate in the non-partisan election boxes

Someone who has contacts in the party leadership, please pass along this suggestion to them

I'm a legitimately confused by this. I've done Google searches on the candidates and on their own campaign websites, They don't make it clear whether they're a Democrat or Republican. The only thing I can do is kind of guess based on their work history and if they mention Faith or one candidate even specifies that they're a Baptist, I'm left to resume the Republican. Why doesn't the Democratic party or some other credible source put out a list of candidates in these non-partisan elections of specifying who's a Democrat and who's a Republican. ballotpedia.com has some info for the candidates but still doesn't make it clear who is the liberal candidate. They're like 10+ Non-Partisan candidates, Am I really expecting to go through each candidate one by one and do an investigation. I guess I could have asked ai at this point he seems a little risky