Indiana Public Question #2, explained

• A city or town court judge could live anywhere in the county where the court is located, or in the bordering Indiana county closest to that city or town, measured by the shortest distance from the town limits to the county line.
• The pool of eligible candidates for these judgeships would widen from the town to at least a whole county, which sponsors say matters most in rural areas.
• Other county, township and town officers would still have to live within their respective counties, townships and towns; the change applies only to city and town court judges.
• Nothing else about these courts changes: judges would still be attorneys in good standing, elected in partisan elections to four-year terms, with mandatory retirement at 75.

• Article 6, Section 6 would continue to require a city or town court judge to live in the city or town where the court is located.
• Towns with few resident attorneys would keep the same narrow pool of eligible candidates; the sponsor says some small towns have "half a dozen or even less" attorneys who might take on a town court judgeship.
• Indiana would continue to have 2.23 attorneys per 1,000 residents against a national average of about four, with nearly half of the state's lawyers in or around Indianapolis, according to the American Bar Association's 2025 study cited by the House Republican caucus.

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