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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just FYI -- Article II, Section 9 of the VA constitution says that you can't be called to jury duty during an "election." And now we know that "election" means the approximately 45-day period beginning with early voting. So it seems like there's now a 45-day period during which jury trials won't be happening in Virginia.[/quote] For this purpose it would be clear that election meant election day. Same word does not have to mean the same thing in every context. The VA constitution intended to impose that burden on votes. But did not intend to limit jury service. [/quote] You have the interpretive principle backward: you start with the presumption that the same word means the same thing. If jury service was only supposed to be prohibited on "election day," it would have said that instead of simply saying "election."[/quote]
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