Send us your Feedback For our privacy policy, click here . For our user agree- ment, click here . The idea of this part of the bill is that citizens should show some level of interest in our governmental system to qualify as jurors. However, Bowman thinks this expectation puts an unbearable hardship on minorities, which only makes sense if you think they can't fill out a voter's application, available in any phone book or Driver and Motor Vehicle Services office. Given the utter simplicity of registering, I assume that if anyone chooses not to, it's because he doesn't care to vote.
Democracy places the responsibility of involvement on the people it benefits.
If registering to vote is too high a price for some people to pay, they should live with the consequences. Liberal legislators who think minorities are so feeble that they have to be chronically saved from themselves end up lowering all standards to the level of the chronically apathetic and undermine the value of active citizenship. It's an insult to our democracy and to the minorities who are registered voters.