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North Carolina Improves Voter Education

North Carolina Improves Voter Education

RALEIGH, N.C. - The North Carolina Center for Voter Education created a special Web site for the Nov. 5 election designed to acquaint citizens with candidates for the state's top judgeships. The site, called the NC Center for Voter Education Guide to Judicial Elections, offered basic information about 14 candidates running for seven statewide judicial offices.

The center invited candidates for North Carolina's Supreme Court and Court of Appeals to provide 200-word statements for voters. The site also detailed each candidate's education and legal and professional experience.

"Voters need more information about the candidates who want to sit on the state's highest courts. By their own admission, too often voters go to the ballot box without enough information about these candidates," said Chris Heagarty, executive director of the Center for Voter Education. "We're taking the first step to a better educated electorate for judicial elections."

Polling conducted for the center earlier this year found that most voters lack the information they need to make informed decisions about judicial candidates. A majority of voters -- 57 percent -- reported having little or no information about candidates in the last judicial election, while only 6 percent reported having "a great deal of information."