How a state picks its judges is quieter than most ballot fights but matters more than most. This amendment cuts two ways at once. Lengthening and capping terms is a reasonable housekeeping change. But dropping the bar on lawyers serving as at-large members, and dropping the limit on how many commissioners share one party, both loosen guardrails that were built to keep the bar and any single party from dominating who gets robed. A citizen should weigh whether those guardrails were protecting the bench from capture or just adding friction. Honest people land on both sides of that — the 13 House and 8 Senate no votes show it wasn't unanimous.
"Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates... and they shall judge the people with just judgment."
— Deuteronomy 16:18 (KJV)