Judges Don’t Use Gavels 

To prepare for the Stranger Election Control Board process, I slip a couple of fun questions up my sleeve to shake out in a moment of tension—people cry, they tangle their fingers, they stare into space as their campaign crashes around them, they torture one another with opposition research, and they ruin congenial atmospheres with shouting—because tension is inevitable between political competitors.Since we had five Supreme Court races and a handful of local judicial races from eve