Originally Posted by
Lonnie
I assume you are wearing that (inappropriate) shirt for jury duty. Someone once asked if there was a "legal" way to get out of jury duty.There is: never register to vote. Many American citizens think that when you vote is when you automatically get put on the jury duty list. That is NOT TRUE. It is when you REGISTER to VOTE that you get put on the jury duty list, whether you ever vote in an election or not.
So much is made about voter ID laws and how these laws keep legal American citizens from exercising their right to voting, which, they do; I do not dispute that whatsoever. But on the other hand, if it keeps individuals who cannot vote legally from registering, then voter ID laws have done its job as intended and that is something we never know about because it deters such individuals from doing so.
But I think that many more American citizens do not vote , or even knowing about registering to vote places them on a jury duty list, because they do not wish to serve on a jury. That to me is a MUCH bigger issue about voter apathy and ignorance than voter ID laws.
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