Something About Jury Duty and Worldcon

[kevin_standlee]

For some reason, I seem to get a jury-duty summons every second year or so just before Worldcon. This time, the summons date is the Wednesday before I leave for Japan. I have applied for a routine deferral to October. Every time I've asked for a deferral before, they've not actually called me again, but just put my name back into the box and called me a year or two later.

Mind you, they still haven't corrected my name in their records, despite me having repeatedly told them that it's "Standlee," not "Stanolee." Typos live forever, it seems.

Comments

[howeird]

As calimac says, they sent the summons to the wrong address. If the name on the summons doesn't match the name on your voter's pamphlet...

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

That's the problem. Alameda County typoed my name in my voter registration, and that's what the court ends up using. I've been trying for some time to get the Registrar of Voters office to fix this. There have been years when I've received two ballots -- one in my right name, and one with the typo. The last time this happened, I called their office and told them that this was a Very Bad Thing and it's a good thing I'm honest. They told me to shred the ballot sent to the wrong name.

The thing is, I'm not adverse to serving on a jury. I just am not generally available during Worldcon season.

[howeird]

Vote early, vote often. :-)

I'm not adverse to serving on a jury
Didn't think you were. I was more concerned with the name being wrong on the public records - it could prevent you from being allowed to vote. But you've explained they have you down both ways.