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Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE Document 204-12 Filed 04/16/21 Page 11 of 30 selected and those selected are sent a questionnaire to determine if they are qualified. The names of persons who complete and return the questionnaire and are found to be qualified as a juror, unless granted an exception from jury service, are then placed on the qualified jury wheel from which potential jurors are summoned. 23. What in this process could cause the difference in the percent African American and percent Hispanic between the benchmark and the qualified jury wheel? Below is a list of all likely possible causes of such a difference. In considering the differences, I view the process as moving sequentially from the voter registration lists to the qualified jury wheel, and I compare the absolute disparity in the percent African American and Hispanic at each step with that of the community. 24. Reasons 1-3 focus on the causes of the differences between a master jury wheel that is drawn from the voter registration list such that every registered voter in White Plains as of November 1, 2016 had an equal likelihood of being included, and the community. Reasons 4-5 focus on the causes of the differences between the actual master jury wheel and such a randomly drawn master jury wheel. Reasons 6-8 focus on the causes of the differences between the qualified jury wheel and the master jury wheel. Reasons: Community vs Randomly Selected Master Jury Wheel from Voter Registration Lists 1) The community may differ from the randomly selected master jury wheel because U.S. citizens of voting age (i.e., the community) and those registered to vote (i.e., the master jury wheel) are different. 2) The estimate of the demographics of the community may differ from the demographics of those on the voter registration lists because the estimates are from different times and also 11 DOJ-OGR-00003631