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I lived in Texas for 99.9% of my life, and a great deal of that time was in a county with a much smaller population than what I live in now. During that time, I never got called for jury duty. Not once.

The reason I bring this up is this:

When Tammy and I moved up here, a friend of mine and his wife also moved here for the same job. This was in January of this year. Since that time all 4 of us have been called for jury duty. We had all lived in Texas our entire lives, and none of us had ever been called for jury duty. But, after 9 months in Kansas, we all get called. In fact, it was only about 3 months from when the first of us was called until the last of us was called. And of the 4 of us, mine was the only trial that wasn't canceled. I ended up not getting selected for the jury however, nevermind it took them almost 5 hours to not select me.

Now, I don't mind being called for jury, it is an important role we play (even though the trial I was called for was basically a rich guy suing another rich guy), but just wonder how 4 people, newly relocated, get called in such a short time frame. How do they make these selections? They claim it is random, but it sure doesn't seem random.