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Perspective

Jun. 23, 2015

Letter to the editor: Less can actually be more on voter ballots

Why do our state's election laws allow candidates in all of its elections (judicial and non-judicial) to designate their occupation on the ballot in the first place? By John K. Haggerty

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR COLUMN

Judge Randolph Hammock's perceptive guest column, "Election reform begins on ballots" (June 8), in which he calls for further statutes to regulate how candidates may designate their occupation on the ballots in judicial elections, prompts an even larger question: Why do our state's election laws allow candidates in all of its elections (judicial and non-judicial) to designate their occupation o...

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