Primera Texas Voting Turnout Mystery Solved

During local elections, results are reported across the bottom of the screen on the local TV channels. Last May, I noticed that lots of towns had double digit counts for entire cities and sometimes single digits. In one instance, it said something like "City of Primera, 8 votes for substantial tax increase 2 votes against, voting closed." Where is this Primera that only has 10 voters? I googled Primera and found that it was located outside of Harlingen and had about 4,000 residents and the majority were American citizens. (Not that citizenship is a requirement to vote in the Rio Grande Valley by any stretch of the imagination) Why wasn't anyone voting against the tax increase? I couldn't rest until I got to the bottom of this vexing question.
I drove the 25 miles to Primera to see what exactly was going on. I stopped people on the street and asked about the aversion to voting in the town. They all had the same answer - "You register to vote, you get called for federal jury duty at the federal court house in Brownsville. It's 30 miles drive each way. Not only is jury duty inconvenient, it's expensive. You have to take a whole day off of work and pay for gas and your boss gets mad. God forbid you get picked for a two week trial. We don't have anything against voting, it's just we don't want to get picked for jury duty. It's like that all over Cameron County."
Basically only a few registered voters control the whole town. They probably get called for jury duty a lot. The federal courts on the border face a big challenge, a huge docket and a very limited number of people to call for jury duty. Legally, the courts in Texas can select jurors based on a drivers license alone - but the computers are set up to just pull from registered voters and not from drivers license holders. And, bureaucracy being what it is, it's very hard for the Federal Courts to change the mindset and get the state to redo their data. Presently, the driver license lists don't differentiate between US Citizens and non US Citizens. It's assumed that only US citizens would sign up to vote. (Emphasis on assumed.)
I often read that Americans are not interested in politics and this is evidenced by the fact that many do not bother to register to vote. Perhaps they just don't want to get called for jury duty. I rarely get around to voting myself, but I'm registered just hoping to get called for jury duty. It never happens. I've never gotten to serve on a jury.