When Mexicans arrive at voting booths next year to elect their judges for the first time, they face a unique and daunting task.
In the capital Mexico City, voters will have to choose judges for more than 150 positions, including on the Supreme Court, from a list of 1,000 candidates that most people have never heard of. For each of the 150 posts, space will be allotted for voters to write out individually the names of up to 10 preferred candidates.
Without makeshift solutions such as dividing up the judges into subdistricts, it could take 45 minutes just to fill in the ballot papers, one analyst estimated. Even with such fixes, voters will still have to choose from many dozens of unfamiliar names.
"It's impossible," said Jaime Olaiz-González, a constitutional theory professor at Mexico's Universidad Panamericana. "In no country, not even the most backward, have they proposed a system like this." The vote will be the culmination of a drive by the country's leftwing nationalist president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, to radically overhaul a branch of the state that has frequently angered him by blocking his plans.
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Electing judges has to be among the most r-slurred populoid shit conceivable.
Mexico is imitating Bolivia, reminds me of rhe Chilean leftoids whose constitutional draft was basically the Bolivian Constitution, plurinational nonsense included.
!neolibs LATAM leftoids unironically cite Bolivia as a role model of "functional" Latin-American socialism.
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mfw I just got elected judge
!r-slurs
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I vote aca for judge judy and executioner
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Hot Fuzz is such a great movie
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I'M RERARDED!
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this is lowkey an easy way bait progressive or occasionally conservneurodivergent normies without being overtly trolly. Riling up rightoids is a little more context dependent, but with all the recent Trump trial stuff they're pretty ready to get bent out of shape over it. Try it at Thanksgiving
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What chu mean? Electing judges is r-slurred. are you saying I should pretend to be r-slurred to rile people up?
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No, I'm saying the opposite. Articulate that you're grateful we have appointed judges who are empowered to rule without bias and independent of partisan electoral politics, and watch 8/10 of your relatives sneed about it.
These days, most (this is anecdotal) politically-engaged burgers are populist tards of one stripe or another, so enthusiastic support of the relatively idiot-
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I'm pretty sure most state judges are elected though
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