In a year in which Pennsylvanians—still reeling from a wave of judicial and political corruption—will be casting their votes in controversial and hotly contested presidential, U.S. Senate and state attorney general races, the outcome of a November vote on whether to raise the judicial retirement age is anything but a foregone conclusion, political observers said.

This, despite the fact that nearly 2.4 million voters unofficially weighed in on that very question during the April primary, ultimately voting 51-49 against a constitutional amendment that would raise the mandatory judicial retirement age from 70 to 75.

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