Mexico Sends Judges On the Trail for First Popular Election

Mexican voters for the first time will elect their judges in a campaign that begins Sunday, a process involving thousands of little-known candidates that could drastically change the balance of power in the country.

The winners of June’s vote will fill the Supreme Court and half the federal judiciary, leaving voters to sort through more than 4,000 candidates for 881 seats. Most of them have never campaigned before and they must only use their own money for self-promotion.