Electing Judges ?

Massachusetts voters and residents may wish to reconsider their constitutional processes as to judicial appointments and amend the state constitution to permit an entire election of the bench; as is done by Washington State. A reminder, that Washington became a state in the ere of great political reform in the United States; and that state which planned a governemnt with character and integrity of President George Washington, placed that in the new state's constitution.

This blogger has lived and voted in past years in Seattle Washington; and the entire judicial slate from sub-county to Supreme Court Justice are nominated -- seek election and elected to the bench for a term, with very good results.

Link to Washington State Constitution referencing the election of state judges.
http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/other/WA_CONSTITUTION.htm see Article IV Sections 3 & 5