# What are the odds of a US registered voter going \> 25 years without being called for jury duty?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-odds-of-a-us-registered-voter-going-25-years-without-being-called-for-jury-duty/527546>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 3, 2010, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-odds-of-a-us-registered-voter-going-25-years-without-being-called-for-jury-duty/527546 "2010-02-03T17:17:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![FoundWaldo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dfb087/32.png) [@FoundWaldo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoundWaldo)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2014, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-odds-of-a-us-registered-voter-going-25-years-without-being-called-for-jury-duty/527546/61 "2014-07-10T04:22:54Z")

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> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#):
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> In California people are primarily chosen based on driver’s licenses. No point in summoning people who can’t get to the court house.

Yeah, I’m not registered to vote and I’ve been called twice in the last two years.

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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2014, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-odds-of-a-us-registered-voter-going-25-years-without-being-called-for-jury-duty/527546/62 "2014-07-10T04:28:52Z")

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> [@Siam\_Sam](#):
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> I was last called in the 1980s. Of course, I’m registered to vote based on my family’s last residence in Texas. That is no more, and I own no property there, so I might not even know if I’m called. No warrants appear to be out for me though, or at least no one’s arrested me at any airport in the US when I arrive or leave.

On a side note, I keep up a good e-mail correspondence with my voter registrar in Texas around every election time, and she knows my situation and that I haven’t lived there in years and years. Seems as long as I’m not a resident in some other state, I can maintain my voter eligibility there indefinitely. But she’s never mentioned the jury-duty thing. I wonder if I’m flagged in some way that the computer knows I’m a foreign resident.

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