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Voting in the Cuyahoga County primary election is underway in Cleveland and its surrounding communities in advance of Election Day on March 19. An important part of primary ballots are races for judicial seats on the Common Pleas Court, where elected judges decide outcomes that have the power to change the lives of the people who stand before them.
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In preparation for the elections, News 5 partners The Marshall Project and Signal Cleveland put together a guide to judges, with snapshots of candidate profiles. They solicited questions from Clevelanders and posed them to the slate of judicial primary candidates. Below is the complete guide to judges in Cuyahoga County, including the questions asked by the community and the responses provided by the candidates.
View the guide below or click here to see it on The Marshall Project's Cleveland website.
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Credits
Clevelanders, community organizations, and Documenters all played a critical role in informing our process. We thank them for their generous time and feedback as we designed and developed this community tool.
Reporting and writing Doug Livingston, Brittany Hailer, Dakotah Kennedy, Rachel Dissell
Profile editing Rachel Dissell, Phil Trexler
Copy editing Ghazala Irshad, Mary Ellen Huesken
Documenters Daniel McLaughlin, Karima McCree-Wilson, Barbara Phipps, Ayanna Rose Banks, Alyssa Holznagel, Ronaldo Rodriguez Jr., Tucker Handley
Illustrations John G
Product design and art direction Elan Kiderman Ullendorff
Additional art direction Jovelle Tamayo
Development and data processing Ryan Murphy, Gabe Isman, and Aithne Feay
Audience engagement Ashley Dye, Camille Renner, Rachel Kincaid, Annaliese Griffin
Partnership and production Ruth Baldwin, Mara Corbett, Terri Troncale, Ebony Reed
Media outreach Nicole Funaro
Community outreach Louis Fields, Rachel Dissell
Community listening and collaborative design Rachel Dissell, Andrew Rodriguez Calderón, Ana Mendez, Nicole Lewis
Project editing and project management Andrew Rodriguez Calderón, David Eads