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| Contributor | Ralphie |
| Last Modified | Ralphie July 20, 2010 07:54pm |
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The Washington Supreme Court is the highest court in the judiciary of the state of Washington. It consists of nine justices elected in nonpartisan elections to six-year terms, with one of them being chosen to serve as chief justice by their peers.
Up until 1926 Supreme Court justices were elected 1/3 at a time via multi-member ballots. Since then each justice has been elected individually, but only recently has the state used a consistent system of position numbers. Prior to that ballots listed position numbers based on how many different positions were on the ballot (i.e. the first race is Pos.1, the second is Pos. 2, etc.). Races in this container list position numbers that represent the seat historical justices would now be occupying in the current system rather than the mostly unreliable position numbers which positions are listed under on the ballots.
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