I previously blogged that there was a likelihood that the ballot question in Pennsylvania, on extending the mandatory judicial retirement age, would be deferred to the November election. It's official! Yesterday both the PA Senate and PA House signed the joint resolution directing the Department of State to defer the ballot question to November. The deferral makes sense. First, it allows the question to be revised and simplified. Second, more people will have an opportunity to vote on the question. While non-partisan or independent voters could have voted on the question in the primary, most people would not have been aware of that fact.
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