Efforts to derail voting in next month’s general election on a ballot question asking voters if Pennsylvania’s judicial retirement age should be 75 years of age have thus far failed to succeed. Although challengers to the proposal have yet to give up all hope, at this point it appears likely that the question will appear on the ballot in the form of a proposed amendment to Pennsylvania’s Constitution next month.
As polling expert Berwood Yost of Franklin & Marshall College persuasively demonstrated in an essay that The Philadelphia Inquirer published last week, the current phrasing of the ballot question is misleading insofar as it omits that Pennsylvania’s current judicial retirement age is 70. As currently phrased, voters are likely to understand the proposed amendment as imposing a retirement age of 75 in place of no currently applicable judicial retirement age.
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