June 2016 California Primary Analysis (V): Judicial and County

I recently got my sample ballot for the “Statewide Direct Primary Election” on June 5, and boy, is it going to be a confusing election for people. We have two contests with enough candidates to take two pages (27 candidates for Governor, 32 for Senator, and two contests for our assembly district: one for the “short term” because the previous assemblycritter left early thanks to #metoo, and one for the “full term”, with the same candidates). There are going to be a lot of posts as I work through this. Here’s the sequence as I see it (note: links to articles not yet posted will not work or may be incomplete):

• June 2016 California Primary Analysis (I): Introduction and Gubernatorial
• June 2016 California Primary Analysis (II): Other Statewide State Offices
• June 2016 California Primary Analysis (III): District-Based State Offices
• June 2016 California Primary Analysis (IV): US Senate and House
• June 2016 California Primary Analysis (V): Judicial and County (this post)
• June 2016 California Primary Analysis (VI): State Measures
• June 2016 California Primary Analysis (VI): Recap and Summary

This post will cover the Judges of the Superior Court (Offices 4, 16, 20, 60, 63, 67, 71, 113, 118, 126, and 146), LA County Assessor, LA County Sheriff, and LA County Supervisor (3rd District).

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