Decision time is here

As I filled in for Vikki Leach, the regular host of the Electric Magazine Show the last few weeks, a caller recently said to me, “People in position need to do more to educate would-be voters before election day.” She added that we shouldn’t wait until two weeks before an election to try and start telling people what offices are up for grabs.

- Thera Martin

I didn’t want to come off rude or anything, but what I was thinking to myself as the caller was talking about what needs to be done to educate voters in advance was that if she read the SCOOP USA Media Newspaper weekly, she and others who claim “not to know” what’s at stake in this election, would have been informed.

Every single week for more than two months now, the Civics 101 column that I have the pleasure of writing for the SCOOP Newspaper has featured a spotlight on the various offices that are up for grabs. I also shared in each recent column, job descriptions for almost all of those offices. So not only were we telling our SCOOP readers what offices are open this election cycle, but we also let readers know what kind of work elected officials are supposed to do for the seats they win.

I get it. Everybody doesn’t read the SCOOP Newspaper, but they should. What else can I say?

Let’s go over the all-important voting list one more time because this is it folks, for the Tuesday, November 7 General Election.

Here’s what is at stake:

The highest court in the state of Pennsylvania has a seat available in this election, the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court. Whoever wins will become a Justice of the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court. The seven-seat high court currently has a majority of four justices elected as Democrats. Two other justices were elected as Republicans. Due to the death of Chief Justice Max Baer last year, one seat on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court is open at this time. Once you get elected as a Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, you have a tenyear term, and you can run for an unlimited number of terms until you reach the retirement age of seventy-five.