#63: Guest Dan Schultz with Precinct Strategy joins us to inform what we can do to get involved to take our country back by starting at our local level.

THE POWER OF THREE-TENTHS OF ONE PERCENT OF SEVENTY-FOUR MILLION

In a nutshell, this is what every conservative — including you, dear reader — needs to do ASAP — if our goal is to have our state legislators pass election reform laws requiring all counties to stop using any kind of imaging machines for counting votes and, instead, return us to the “gold standard” of counting votes:  hand-counting at the polling locations before the paper ballots are allowed to leave the premises and making voting by mail the exception and not the rule.  The first step in taking back our government, by electing better, people, is by taking back the Republican Party from those running it now.  And that means YOU becoming a precinct committeeman for your voting precinct.  (Precinct committeeman is called different things in different states (precinct chair, precinct delegate, precinct committee officer, member, etc.; the bottom line is that you want to become a voting member of your local or county committee, and it is not difficult to do so.)

Contact your county Republican Party Committee, find out when and where it or your local district Party Committee meets (terminology varies from state to state), and attend the meeting.  If your county committee is not listed at State Information, do this internet search: [your county name] county Republican committee. In CT and MA, search on the name of your city or town instead of your county name.)
Introduce yourself. Be friendly, polite, and low key.  The current officers may be wary of outsiders.    Ask if a vacant precinct committeeman position exists for your precinct and volunteer to be appointed to fill it.  If no vacancy currently exists (extremely unlikely), volunteer to be a “helper” for the existing precinct committeemen.
Ask for a copy of the precinct committeeman handbook of your state party committee and study it and learn how to run for precinct committeeman in the next election for these positions.