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Case 1:20-cr-00330-AJN Document 126 Filed 01/25/21 Page 6 of 13 Southern District of New York ("Jury Plan"), available at https://nysd.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/juryplan_feb_2009.pdf. The Jury Plan uses voter registration lists as the exclusive source of names of prospective jurors. Jury Plan, Art. III.A. From these names, two master jury wheels are constructed: one for the Manhattan courthouse and one for the White Plains courthouse. The Jury Plan provides that to fill the master wheels, jurors are to be drawn from each county's voter registration list. For each county, the proportion of jurors drawn should be the same as the proportion of that county's number of registered voters to the total number of registered voters for all of the counties in the respective wheels. Id., III.A.1, III.B. The Manhattan master wheel contains names drawn from New York, Bronx, Westchester, Putnam, and Rockland counties. The White Plains master wheel contains names from Westchester, Putnam, Rockland, Orange, Sullivan, and Dutchess counties. For the three overlapping counties (Westchester, Putnam, and Rockland), the names are apportioned among the two master wheels so as to "reasonably reflect the relative number of registered voters in each county" within the respective wheels. Id., Art. IV.B. According to the Jury Plan, the "Master Jury Wheels shall be emptied and refilled by not later than September 1 following the date of each Presidential Election." Id., Art. III.B; see also United States v. Reyes, 934 F. Supp. 553, 555 (S.D.N.Y 1996). The Jury Plan further provides that at least once a year, names are to be drawn randomly from the master jury wheels in an amount sufficient to meet the anticipated demand for jurors for the next six months. Jury Plan, Art. III.D. Those whose names are drawn are sent questionnaires to determine their qualifications to sit as jurors, which they are instructed to return within ten days. Id. Art. III.E. The qualified jury wheels comprise those individuals who complete and 3 DOJ-OGR-00002326