h/t to Rob Richie for this article, discussing changes to Illinois law that will limit candidates’ abilities to file for multiple offices, to gauge their best chance of success.

Also of note, the article discusses the environment for judicial races that makes the strategy productive:

Because voters pay less attention to judicial races, quaint-sounding names and ballot position often trump merit and experience. Studies have shown women with Irish surnames win a larger percentage of the vote in Cook County. A candidate for judge might want to avoid a ballot with a Margaret O’Sullivan or a Cathleen Flannery on it.

David Schleicher’s written quite a bit about these sorts of low-information elections.