Strongbow asks about this post:

This actually intrigues me quite a bit since I see my precinct is currently without a chair person. What is the selection process after the application is submitted? What duties are required of the chair person? If it gives me a chance to chew out wayward State Legislators, and actually have a chance at being heard, then I am all over it.

1. Selection process: For vacant precincts, you appear before the Vacancy Committee and then the Executive Committee as a whole votes to approve appointments. You could also file to run for the office in the GOP primary. Then the selection is made by the voters. If one person files, and that person is eligible to hold the office, that’s the precinct chair.

2. Duties: The duties are what the chair makes of them. Legally, the duties are next-to-nothing. In practice, this is what I think is the minimum expected of a precinct chair:

• Attend the Executive Committee meetings of the county party (4/year).
• Run the precinct convention on primary day.
• Keep track of new development in the precinct.
• Serve as the liaison from the Republican Party to the voters in precinct.
• Get out the Republican vote in the precinct in general elections.

Concerning the comment about being heard, the amount that one is heard is directly proportional to the amount to which one can mobilize voters.