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."