{"id":92980,"date":"2020-11-06T11:08:28","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T17:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=92980"},"modified":"2020-11-06T13:34:48","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T19:34:48","slug":"with-62-judges-on-the-ballot-whats-a-voter-to-do-toss-toomin-campaign-was-the-latest-effort-to-get-chicago-voters-engaged-on-judicial-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/with-62-judges-on-the-ballot-whats-a-voter-to-do-toss-toomin-campaign-was-the-latest-effort-to-get-chicago-voters-engaged-on-judicial-races\/","title":{"rendered":"With 62 judges on the ballot, what&#8217;s a voter to do? &#8216;Toss Toomin&#8217; campaign was latest effort to engage voters on judicial races"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By<\/strong> <b>Courtney Kueppers<\/b><br \/>\n<em>Medill Reports\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">By shortly after 10 a.m. on Election Day, Dan Schneider was beginning to feel like a broken record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI\u2019ve been saying the same thing for over an hour,\u201d the 29-year-old lawyer said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Outside of Chicago\u2019s United Center, typically home to the Bulls and Blackhawks, upbeat music played on a speaker, volunteers handed out free food and activists made their final pitch to people lining up to cast their ballot at the Election Day super site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Against this festive backdrop, Schneider kept saying \u201cVote no on Judge Toomin, he\u2019s protecting crooked cops,\u201d and offering a business-card-sized handout to generally uninterested passersby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Schneider was at the polling place \u2013 in the designated <span class=\"s1\">electioneering<\/span> area \u2013 on behalf of the Judicial Accountability Project, a local political action committee that\u2019s been trying in recent years to bring more attention to the judicial races on the ballot in Cook County. In 2018, they successfully campaigned against J<span class=\"s2\">udge Matthew Coghlan<\/span>, who became the first Cook County judge<a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/2018\/11\/6\/18377098\/cook-county-circuit-judge-matthew-coghlan-loses-retention-bid\"> <span class=\"s4\">to lose a retention race in 28 years<\/span><\/a>, after accusations of corruption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In Cook County, judges must run to retain their seats at the end of each term. However, these races have historically been uncontested, which means most judges have easily attained the 60% of voter approval needed to keep their seat. With dozens of judges on the ballot in any given cycle, deciding how to vote on each is an enormous task for voters \u2013 this year there were 62 retention elections and two contested judicial seats,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.injusticewatch.org\/interactives\/judicial-election-guide\/2020-general\/en\/\"> <span class=\"s4\">according to the nonprofit journalism outlet Injustice Watch<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">That\u2019s why a lot of voters either vote to retain across the board or skip the judicial races altogether, which was the case for about a quarter of Cook County voters in 2018, Injustice Watch reports. The Judicial Accountability Project is hoping to change that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">This year, the group set its sights on removing Judge Michael Toomin from his seat. They staged a \u201cToss Toomin\u201d campaign meant to reach voters mostly through digital advertising. Toomin, a circuit court judge who has held his seat since the 1980s,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.injusticewatch.org\/news\/2020\/michael-toomin-lori-lightfoot-fundraiser\/\"> <span class=\"s4\">had the support of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot<\/span><\/a> and ultimately prevailed in Tuesday\u2019s contest, <a href=\"https:\/\/electionnight.cookcountyclerkil.gov\/\"><span class=\"s5\">with 64% approval<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The activists who campaigned against Toomin knew they had their work cut out for them this year, but felt it was important to highlight what they see as his unjustly harsh treatment of juvenile detainees, including earlier this year when he blocked an effort that would have made it easier for lawyers to get young clients<a href=\"https:\/\/www.injusticewatch.org\/news\/2020\/judge-blocks-key-legal-protection-for-detained-youth\/\"> <span class=\"s4\">awaiting trial out of detention amid the coronavirus pandemic<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As Schneider made his final plea to voters on Tuesday, he acknowledged the challenges of getting people to care about the judicial races.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cMost people don&#8217;t really know that much about Judge Toomin and I mean this really gets into the weeds of local government,\u201d he said. \u201cI&#8217;m an attorney in the county and I can&#8217;t name every judge in Cook County. It&#8217;s just impossible to know everything about every judge, even if you&#8217;re actively practicing in the county.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In recent years, there has been a more concerted effort to inform voters about these races, that includes advocacy from groups like the Judicial Accountability Project and the judicial guide that Injustice Watch publishes with<a href=\"https:\/\/www.injusticewatch.org\/interactives\/judicial-election-guide\/2020-general\/en\/\"> <span class=\"s4\">information about each judge<\/span><\/a>. There are also grassroots groups like the 48th Ward Neighbors for Justice in Uptown and bar associations like the Chicago Council of Lawyers who are focusing efforts on these races.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Despite these efforts though, some voters say they still feel like they are flying blind on the judicial portion of their ballot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Antione Johnson, a 43-year-old resident of Chicago\u2019s Austin neighborhood, said some of the judges\u2019 names were familiar to him because he has been a voter in the city for a long time, but if he didn\u2019t know anything about a judge, he left the bubbles blank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cFor the most part, any election people just go in there and vote for president, but I think this election was very important for me to really find out who was going to be on the ballot,\u201d Johnson said Tuesday after casting his vote at the United Center. \u201cUnfortunately, the names that I didn\u2019t know, I didn\u2019t pick them because that\u2019s a blind vote and I don\u2019t believe in that. Some of them I picked \u2018yes\u2019 and other ones I left blank.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Other voters had a different approach, like relying on intuition or selecting based solely on names \u2013 voting to retain those who sounded like women or people of color.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">And for others yet, the decision was more personal, like for Noemi Saldivar who became a United States citizen earlier this year and voted for the first time on Tuesday. Saldivar\u2019s 17-year-old son is transgender, so when she was deciding how to vote in the judicial races, she did a lot of background reading on where they stood on issues related to the LGBTQ community, she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Regardless of the outcome on Tuesday, Judicial Accountability Project president <span class=\"s1\">Brendan Shiller said he feels confident the culture around judicial races in Cook County is shifting. For decades, the judicial selection process has been heavily influenced by Chicago\u2019s powerful Democratic Machine, but as the machine\u2019s power has waned, this may be changing.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In upcoming cycles, Shiller said he thinks the current wave of political participation will continue and that even more people will be paying attention to these down-ballot contests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI think for the most part, especially with the activists who care about criminal justice issues, it&#8217;s here and staying here,\u201d <span class=\"s1\">Shiller said of the current era of activism.<\/span> \u201cI think what you&#8217;re seeing is, as long as you can compile the information about the judges, in a readable, relatable format, the voters are going to read it and study up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtney Kueppers covers social justice at Medill. You can follow her on Twitter at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cmkueppers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/cmkueppers&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1604768710413000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHOyzC92-2Cd5Eoqb3tiBrazRbXjQ\">@cmkueppers<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Courtney Kueppers Medill Reports\u00a0 By shortly after 10 a.m. on Election Day, Dan Schneider was beginning to feel like a broken record. \u201cI\u2019ve been saying the same thing for over an hour,\u201d the 29-year-old lawyer said. 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