You'd expect the King County Bar Association, the professional organization that supervises local lawyers, to have one of the best systems for telling us who to pick in all those judicial races down at the bottom of the ballot.

But as it turns out, the KCBA—rather alarmingly—conducted a ratings process this year that went so awry that it has been publicly questioned by two appellate court judges, two local superior court judges, and even former state supreme court justice Faith Ireland, who told the Associated Press last week, "Something is seriously broken in the KCBA judicial evaluation process."

KCBA, we have a big problem.

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