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November 18th, 2022, 12:22 PM #1Senior Member
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Jury Duty selection from voter rolls?
While I feel like I should know this, are jury duty selections made from voter rolls?
This topic came up as I was discussing jury duty with one of my employees and he mentioned that he had gotten two notices for jury duty. His first name was spelled correctly on one of the notices, but a slightly different spelling was on the second notice. Both were sent to the same, correct address on the notice. So when he would go to vote, and give them his name with no DL verification, right after him in the voting log book would there then not be a listing for the misspelled phantom voter? I know that after a certain time voting rolls are purged with no activity of a voter, but if say you had a list of misspelled voters, could someone show up and vote for that phantom? Hypothetically of course.
If there are processes to prevent this, I guess that is what I am asking.
Further info, he called the jury duty number and they said, hmmmm, looks like an error. But do they go back and inform the voter list? And this is from Allegheny County for a jury selection
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November 18th, 2022, 12:30 PM #2Super Member
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Re: Jury Duty selection from voter rolls?
yes they are from the county voter rolls along with the DMV records.
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November 18th, 2022, 12:37 PM #3Senior Member
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Re: Jury Duty selection from voter rolls?
My wife isn't registered to vote. I don't like it, but it's her choice. She has been called for jury duty 3 times in the past 10 years.
I have been voting for 45 years, had jury duty 3 times. Once served on criminal trial 2 days, second time was in the pool but they didn't choose me out of the 60+- taken into the court room. Got out of it this spring while some asshole judges required masks. I told them I wouldn't wear one, jury worker exempted me right away.
Bottom line, jury selection is not only from a voter registration list.
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November 18th, 2022, 12:42 PM #4
Re: Jury Duty selection from voter rolls?
"It seems that the Constitution is more or less guidelines than actual rules"
My feedback: http://forum.pafoa.org/showthread.php?t=305685
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November 18th, 2022, 02:23 PM #5
Re: Jury Duty selection from voter rolls?
Learning something new. Was always under the impression jury pool was drawn exclusively from registered voters and the reason some people don't register to vote is to avoid jury duty. In any case, can green card holders and other legal non-citizens sit on a jury? I think this is checked when registering to vote but certainly not for a DL. In some F'd up blue states, I thing even illegals can get a DL.
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November 18th, 2022, 02:38 PM #6
Re: Jury Duty selection from voter rolls?
I've lived in a different state where jury duty candidates were pulled from a source other than voter registrations.
In any case, can green card holders and other legal non-citizens sit on a jury?
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November 18th, 2022, 05:18 PM #7
Re: Jury Duty selection from voter rolls?
I get called up just about every time I renew my driver's license.
It could just be a coincidence.Accuse your enemy of what you are doing as you are doing it to create confusion -Karl Marx
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November 18th, 2022, 05:51 PM #8
Re: Jury Duty selection from voter rolls?
I've been called for jury duty twice in the past 40 or so years. Once in Delaware County and once in Chester County. I never sat in on the actual case in either time. In Delaware county I was excluded by the insurance company lawyer when he asked me if I knew what insurance fraud was. I said yes, it's when you pay the insurance company premiums for many years and when you have a legitimate claim they deny it and make you sue to get them to pay. In Chester County they never called me for the case and told me I was free to go. I told them I was always free to go.
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November 18th, 2022, 06:44 PM #9
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November 18th, 2022, 10:45 PM #10Grand Member
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Re: Jury Duty selection from voter rolls?
In the twenty years since I've been back in PA. I was called once. When I checked in, they said I wasn't needed. I was never called in VA. in 25 years. I was really hoping to get called for one of the Bobbit trials, in which both were found not guilty, or the DC Sniper trials.
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