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Judicial elections a highly flawed process

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Dan Janison

Melville. N.Y. Tuesday January 26, 2010. Daniel Janison, Dan Janison

Dan Janison has been a reporter at Newsday for 10

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Even in the insider world of New York judicial elections, State Supreme Court races reign supreme as the most inside of them all.

Delegates to the judicial conventions of the major parties met in hotels in Hauppauge and Plainview Thursday night -- the prescribed routine all over the state -- to pick nominees for six open Supreme Court seats.

These events are generally quite scripted....

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