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The following is taken verbatim from text messages between my mother and myself.

Mum: Guess who got a jury summons from the state of Texas?
Me: Oh that sucks!
Mum: YOU DID.
Me: OH NO
Mum: Seriously, you are due to report to the courthouse in two weeks.
Mum: I will be so glad to see you!
Me: Funny. Can you send it to me?
Mum: Tell them you hate Amazon.com and they'll let you off.
Mum: It's like hating America
Me: I'm an anarchist and a commie!
Mum: That's my boy. When you got a letter from the Sheriff's office I thought you'd gotten a ticket
Mum: Eating cupcakes in a no-cupcake zone
Me: I'm a rebel without a fork.
Mum: I'll bring you cookies in jail.

THANKS MUM.

Fortunately, in Austin at least, you can exempt yourself from jury duty online, and they accept "I do not live in Texas" as a valid excuse.

Comments

Re: Jury summons

[thorinsmistress.livejournal.com]

They'd make you take the test? I just had to give up my VA license and got my Texas one when I moved.

Re: Jury summons

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Well, the Illinois DMV's website is hilariously confused about whether I will have to or not.

The other issue is that if I do, I don't...have a car...

Re: Jury summons

[thorinsmistress.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, well, the DMV. The special circle of hell.

Well, I'm glad that Austin is reasonable about that whole "not living in Texas" thing! :-)

[lunar8i8star.livejournal.com]

You don't have to take the road test. At least you shouldn't. I just swapped my Oregon license for an Illinois license a few months ago and I didn't have to take a road test. I did have to take the written but it wasn't challenging. (I did miss a question about the graduated licensing law - I'm 29, what do I care what 17 year-olds can or can't do?) If you plan on registering to vote, I'd wait until after the election at this point as it can take 30 days for your voter registration to clear.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Oh, I've been registered to vote for ages. Never miss an election, me :D

Just to clarify

[mysid.livejournal.com]

You are registered to vote in Chicago, yes? Because if you're registered to vote in Texas and just voting by absentee ballot, you may have a problem now that you've officially declared yourself a citizen of not-Texas.

Re: Just to clarify

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Oh yes -- voting in Texas, when you're me, what's the point. Plus in Chicago we have local aldermen and I definitely want a say in who represents my hood in the government :D