As the seven candidates for an open appeals court post debated their qualifications Monday, the two lawyers who received the lowest ratings in a recent poll of Georgia lawyers rejected the poll’s importance.

“God help us if the lawyers start electing judges in this state,” said Perry J. McGuire, who was deemed “not qualified” for the Court of Appeals by 446 lawyers who voted in the Georgia Bar’s recent poll of its members.

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