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Yes, I would like people to be able to vote without the risk of being selected for jury duty. If someone doesn't want to be selected for jury duty (for any reason - conscientious objection, social anxiety, or simply because they just don't want to), then I don't believe that should rob them of the right to vote.
I cannot think of an alternative way to select juries, although most citizens are registered to an address somewhere so there's certainly another way. National Insurance numbers are tied to individuals. Passports, too.
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The civic duty of Jury Duty is literally how we preserve other people's freedoms.  What suggestion do you have as an alternative for picking Jurors? >

Bench trials. Some countries don't have juries, just judges.
Though I've heard:
You want a jury if you're guilty and you want a judge if you're innocent. >

In the UK pretty much all minor crimes got the  magistrate court, a panel of 3 judges to determine guilt.
Only for serious crimes go to crown court with a jury. >


Because one must be on the electoral register to vote, and because jury service is a compulsory, freedom-restricting order from the government that draws its names from the electoral register, then jury service must cease drawing its names from the electoral register in order to give people the right to vote without any consequence.

You don't understand the UK electoral register. In the UK it is required to register to vote. You don't need to cast a vote but you are required to register. It is a criminal offense to refuse.
So either way jury duty isn't an additional restriction on someone voting or not. >

!delta I didn't know that you were required to be on the electoral register. If this is the case, then you do not have to consider risking being called for jury service when you make the decision to vote. >

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So in order to select a jury you need a representative sample of society near enough to the court that it isn't too inconvenient for them to do jury duty.
I cannot think of any other database other than the electoral register that is near universal and contains a relatively up to date idea of the person's location.
Drivers licenses last for about 10 years so the address can easily be wrong, passports don't store current address etc.
Moreover jury duty is exactly that, a duty you take on as part of society, and if 10 days+ of jury duty is too much, you can get assistance or an exemption from jury duty from the courts. >

So you want to free people from having to make the decision to vote and risk being selected for jury duty or not vote in order to save themselves from the possibility of jury duty? How will juries be selected under your system?