Byline: Associated Press
A watchdog group charged Saturday that the partisan election of Surrogate's Court judges "is usually nothing more than rubber- stamping candidates selected by powerful political leaders" and called for merit selection of judges.
The study by the Fund for Modern Courts examined 24 elections over a six-year period to Surrogate's Court. The court oversees the distribution of millions of dollars in estates, generating hundreds of thousands of dollars in lawyers' fees.
The study found that there were genuinely competitive election campaigns between Democrats and Republicans in only two of the 24 court elections examined.
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