In 1998 the voters of Florida approved a constitutional amendment authorizing an election in November 2000. That vote will decide whether local trial-level judges will be put in office under the merit retention system now used only for state appeals judges. The 2000 Legislature passed a law specifying the ballot language that will be used in the November election. It asks voters to choose whether the selection of judges will "be changed from election by a vote of the people to selection by the judicial nominating commission and appointment by the Governor with subsequent terms determined by a retention vote of the people." Several voters sued on grounds this ballot language is misleading and is contrary to the 1998 constitutional amendment.