Re: Mail-In Voting

On 4/12/24 3:42 AM, BTR1701 wrote:

In article
<712400235.734590676.026739.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com>,
  anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
 

The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:

On Thu, 11 Apr 2024 13:47:40 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
wrote:
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So first you take a cab to the bus stop or have the girlfriend drop you
off. Then you spend an hour or two on the bus (starting at six in the
morning) to get to the bad neighborhood where the court is. Then you go in
And sign in and sit. And wait. This is your Monday. If they don't get to
you, you get to repeat it Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday. And Friday.
If they never get to you Friday, you're excused. If you're chosen, you
can get a trial lasting anywhere from one day to six months.
>
But the bastards lie to you and say you can't be excused because it's
only one day of your time.

>
I was excused on compassionate grounds once - the court date was about
3-4 weeks after my mother (who was the driving force behind the family
business) was fatally run over at an out of town trade show)
>

>
We used to have a half a dozen different grounds you could ask for an
excuse on. They had a list on the form and you check it off. I know they
had indispensable to business. And I got out of it once as a caregiver when
I was able to convince them there wasn’t anybody else. And they had
financial hardship if it was gonna cost you 1000 bucks or something. But
that was back in the 20th century and bit by bit they removed them until it
says there are no excuses because it’s only one day.
>
But even that’s not true. They will still take a medical excuse if your
doctor will write you a note.

 In CA,

Are you talking about California or Canada?
  there's exceptions written into the law that they have no

discretion about granting. If you meet them, it's an automatic pass.
 One of them is that you can decline to serve if you're a certified peace
officer (cop) and they have a whole list of like 20 different types of
cops that qualify, everything from a standard beat cop to a fish and
game warden, but federal agents are nowhere on that list so I still had
to go about six years ago when I got the notice.
 I actually ended up serving on the jury. I was stunned. During voir dire, neither the prosecution nor the defense seemed to have any
problem with me being both a lawyer and a federal cop. (It was an
aggravated DUI case.)
 Even the judge, who has everyone's forms up on the bench, was perplexed.
As they were about to move on to the next potential juror, she stopped
them, then asked me if I would have any problem presuming the defendant
innocent given my background in law enforcement. She was obviously
trying to signal to the defense that I was a cop in case he missed it. I
said I felt I could and the defense still asked me no questions and
didn't object at all.
 So I ended up getting picked for the jury. My boss didn't believe me. He
thought for sure I was just saying I got picked so I could take a few
days off. He even showed up in the courtroom to watch one morning of
testimony.
 (We found the guy guilty.)