A diverse field of six judicial candidates, aided by lawmakers’ creation of a bench seat in New York’s largest geographic trial court district, is set to vie for three positions in the Nov. 8 state election.

The candidates include an incumbent whose decisions are seldom challenged at the appellate level; a former state elections attorney who argued a case that’s maintained the right to secret ballots; and Schenectady’s first Black city court judge.

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