I appreciate the Alaska Judicial Council, but I feel that the public should have more input in the selection or retention (re-election) of judges.   Instead of surveying state employees and attorneys, all of the civilian defendants and plaintiffs should be surveyed also, and their opinions should be included in the Official Election Pamphlet.   There should be volunteer court-watchers, too, whose opinion about fairness and diligence should count.  We recently "re-elected" a Superior Court judge who is rude and discriminatory to women.   This judge said, the first time I observed him, that the voters vote "no" no matter what he does in court.  This judge got about 57% YES votes.   My advice to the voting public.... don't vote on the judges about whom you know nothing.   Voting "no" on all the judges is just as wrong as believing that all the judges deserve "yes" votes.