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by dfc
4421 days ago
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> Who by the way must also be the voters?
I am assuming this was a question and not a passive aggressive taunt. The answer is "No, it is not the case that being on a jury is proof that the juror has voted in an election." Many states use voter registration rolls as an input to the jury duty selection process but I can not find any that screen potential jurors based on actually participating in an election. Furthermore voter registration is not the only way that a citizen can end up being called for jury duty; states often use other DBs eg DMV, Hunting/Fishing licenses, etc for jury duty. |
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No it was really "the public" I meant. Voters, jurors, us in other words. If Texas juries in one county are making patents a laughing stock, it really is upto the rest of us - either in that county, or in juries in other counties and countries, to change that. Or perhaps vote it out of existence. It just seems to me that we read an article and get the "something must be done"'feeling, and are happy when the something does not involve us, hard work, care or a long time. Yet those something's rarely work out.
in short, the current problem with patents is not the fault of various jurors and voters in a small part of Texas. it's our fault.