→ Confer with your lawyer friends. Bar Association members stay informed. One friend who volunteers for the Council on Children’s Rights asks opinions of that staff since they are often in the local courts.
→ The North Carolina Bar has worked with WUNC-TV to run interviews for the state-wide races for the North Carolina Supreme and Appellate court seats. You can view these interviews on line at this ncbar.org link
→ Those same interviews are being broadcast beginning in early October. This news release has the schedule
→ If you identify as strongly partisan, you may choose to vote the party of your preference. These races used to be non-partisan but now list party affiliation.
→ You’ll notice that there are a number of local judges running unopposed. You could choose to focus your study on opposed races, thus reducing your study time.
→ Some choose to wait for the The Charlotte Observer. Since in the past The Observer has run its endorsements close to the election and you might be voting early, that might be less of an option for you this year.
→ The resource below indicates which judges are incumbent. If incumbency matters to you, pay attention to that designation.