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  • Re: Travel and juries (wa

    From NANCY BACKUS@1:123/140 to JOE MACKEY on Tue Mar 26 15:16:00 2019
    Quoting Joe Mackey to Daryl Stout on 03-22-19 08:33 <=-

    They get you on the rolls from voter registration and drivers license data.
    My grandmother was a suffragette but my mother never registered to
    vote. Her reasoning was she didn't want to be a jury.

    That's almost specious... Did it keep her from driving...? :) Plenty
    of ways to avoid having to serve on a jury... including showing up and
    being too intelligent... ;) But being on a jury was something that I
    actually found interesting....

    But, if you don't vote on issues, you don't have the right to
    complain on the outcomes.
    Amen to that!
    When people start complaining about the outcome of an election I
    ask if they voted, not who for, but did they vote. If they did, then
    vent away. If not (and not for a good reason) I don't want to hear it. I've been able to vote since 1972 and missed only one election.
    That was when I moved back here on like a Saturday and a special board
    of election that Tuesday.

    I think we've not missed any election, whether primary, regular, local
    or national in all the years we've been voting...

    And I am generally the first (or at least second) at my polling
    station when it opens.

    We aren't that early at rising... so I don't think we've ever been first
    or second... ;) But we always do show up... :)

    ttyl neb

    ... Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.

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