MY TURN: What is a precinct committeeman?
Kootenai County is divided into 73 election precincts. It is within your precinct that you vote for a president, senator, congressman, state senator, state representative and for a precinct committeeman.
A precinct committeeman is a representative to and a member of the county party central committee. The Democratic Party elects precinct committeemen for each of the 73 precincts who together form the party’s county central committee which becomes the official party organ for the county. The central committee also elects representatives to the state central committee. The same is, of course, true for the Republican Central Committee.
A function of each central committee is to support their party’s nominee in a general election. It has been the rule, and until recently the case, that the parties would be neutral regarding competing party members in a primary election and then support the primary winner in the coming general election.
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