Quote:
Originally Posted by sunnyatlast
It's a national matter!
"In 2005, the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that up to 3 percent of the 30,000 individuals called for jury duty from voter registration rolls over a two-year period in just one U.S. district court were not U.S. citizens.[1]
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I found your quote interesting. "Up to 3 percent" could be anything from zero to 3 percent. I read the GAO report that was referenced in the Heritage Foundation report you quoted.
GAO included in their report 8 U.S. district courts. Those 8 U.S. district courts reported to GAO the percentage of individuals called for jury duty who avoided jury duty by claiming that they were not U.S. citizens.
This is what GAO reported:
"Of the eight district courts, four federal jury administrators said no one had been disqualified from jury service because they were not U.S. citizens. In the other four district courts:
•a federal jury administrator in one U.S. district court estimated that 1 to
3 percent of the people out of a jury pool of 30,000 over 2 years (about
300 to 900 people) said they were not U.S. citizens;
•a federal jury administrator in a second U.S. district court estimated
that less than 1 percent of the people out of a jury pool of 35,000 names
each month (less than 350 people) said they were not U.S. citizens;
•a federal jury administrator in a third U.S. district court estimated that
about 150 people out of a jury pool of 95,000 names over 2 years said
they were not U.S. citizens; and
•a federal jury administrator in a fourth U.S. district court estimated that
annually about 5 people typically claimed non-citizenship in a jury pool
of about 50,000 individuals".
Source:
http://www.gao.gov/assets/250/246628.pdf
It makes me wonder how many of these people who were registered to vote but claimed to be non-citizens when called for jury duty, were actually citizens who lied to avoid jury duty.
In summary, the estimated percentage of registered voters who claimed to be non-citizens when called for jury duty and subsequently disqualified from jury duty were as follows:
4 district courts reported 0 percent
1 reported somewhere between 1 and 3 percent
1 reported less than 1 percent
1 reported 150/95,000, which is 0.15 percent
1 reported about 5 in 50,000, which is 0.01 percent.
To use 3 percent as an estimated of non-citizens on voting records, does not seem appropriate to me.