Kansas Judicial Elections, 2012

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Judicial Elections
Judicial elections, 2012
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The Kansas judicial elections consisted of a primary on August 7th and general election on November 6th.^[1]

Supreme Court[edit]

Judge	Incumbency	Division	Retention vote	Retention Vote %
MoritzNancy Moritz   A	Yes		666,228	70.9%A

Court of Appeals[edit]

Judge	Incumbency	Division	Retention vote	Retention Vote %
BrunsDavid E. Bruns   A	Yes		658,691	75%A
AtchesonG. Gordon Atcheson   A	Yes		617,265	71%A
PierronJoseph Pierron   A	Yes		654,838	74%A
Arnold-BurgerKaren Arnold-Burger   A	Yes		625,724	71%A
LebenSteve Leben   A	Yes		639,388	72%A

District Courts[edit]

For District Court judicial elections, please visit: Kansas judicial elections, 2012 - District Court

In the news[edit]

Georgia group opposes Kansas candidate[edit]

As featured in JP Election Brief: Campaign ads and voter education on October 25, 2012.

In Sedgwick County, Kansas, an out-of-state political action group is opposing Judge Richard T. Ballinger of the 18th Judicial District. Georgia-based Super PAC Safe Nation issued a radio ad opposing the candidacy of Judge Ballinger, who is facing Zoe Newton in the upcoming election.

The ad mentions that Ballinger was issued a cease-and-desist order in 2006 for encouraging another judge to pursue a relationship with an employee, and concludes by telling listeners to "vote Zoe Newton."^[2] The Ballinger campaign had previously released an ad mentioning Newton's lower scores on a local bar association survey.

Newton wrote of the Safe Nation ad, "I firmly believe that certain campaign practices, such as negative ads, are unseemly in the context of a judicial race…My campaign is not responsible for this ad, nor do I condone or approve of it."^[2]

Ballinger responded by telling his supporters, "If we don’t beat back this PAC now, judicial elections in Wichita will be changed forever."^[2]

Kansas 2012 retention elections[edit]

As featured in JP Election Brief: 2012 Retention Elections on July 5, 2012.

Kansas will have some substantial ballots, with 79 judicial retention elections this year.

• Eric Rosen is the only justice of the Kansas Supreme Court facing retention.
• In the Court of Appeals, six judges seek retention: Karen Arnold-Burger, G. Gordon Atcheson, David E. Bruns, Richard Greene, Steve Leben, and Joseph Pierron.^[3][4]

External links[edit]

• Kansas Secretary of State, 2012 Election Fact Sheet

Footnotes[edit]

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