Long Island Write-In Candidate, Voters Sound Off On ‘Corrupt System' Controlling State Judge Elections

CBS New York

November 10, 2021

Some call it the last bastion of the political patronage pie — the doling out judgeships across the state.

Voters go to the polls, but have no impact on the outcome.

Jacqueline Franchetti garnered a nearly unprecedented 3,000 votes last week as a write-in candidate for Supreme Court judge on Long Island. She tried, unsuccessfully, to block the promotion of a Family Court judge.

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