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

[dsmoen.livejournal.com]

I've been trying to correct a typo with the EDD for ten years.

My surname doesn't start with an F (they think it's Faoirse).

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

Tell them that nobody named Stanolee lives at this address.

My latest summons would also have wreaked havoc had I been going to Japan. Instead, it threatens to wreak havoc on my going to Wisconsin. Extension application, again.

[renegade500.livejournal.com]

I've lived in Austin for 21 years, and I've been called for jury duty only once in all that time, about 10 years ago.

When I moved last year, I moved to the little smidge of Austin that is actually in the county north of Travis (I'm in Williamson county). I haven't been called yet, but a friend who lived in this same location got called regularly from both Williamson and Travis counties. Williamson would tell her she couldn't serve, because she lived in Austin, and Travis county wouldn't let her serve, because she lived in Williamson county. You'd think when the city annexed that little bit of Williamson county, they would have figured that out. Perhaps I won't move from here for a while.

[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...