How the party fits together
The party is built from the bottom up. Registered Republicans meet in their precinct, elect delegates to the county convention, and the county convention elects delegates to the district and state conventions (1-201).
The four levels
- Precinct: the neighborhood unit. Chair, Vice Chair, Secretary. Meets at least once a year (Article 3).
- County: a County Executive Committee and an annual County Convention (Article 4, 8-101).
- Congressional District: a District Executive Committee and an annual District Convention in April (Article 6, 8-201).
- State: the State Executive Committee is the supreme governing body (7-101). The Operating Committee runs things between its meetings (7-205). The State Convention meets in May or early June (8-301).
Who counts as a Member
Which rules apply
- This state plan applies everywhere. A county or district can adopt its own plan, but it cannot contradict the state plan (2-102).
- A county or district with no plan of its own is governed by the state plan (2-102).
- Where the plan is silent, Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised governs (2-101).
- The State Convention can change the plan every year (2-101). Always check the edition.
How votes travel upward
- Each precinct sends 1 delegate to the county convention, plus 1 more per 100 Republicans registered there on January 31 (3-306).
- Each county's state delegates: 1, plus 1 per resident legislator or statewide or national official, plus 1 per 250 Republicans on January 31 (8-103(d)).
- For State Chair and Vice Chair, each county casts its full number of authorized delegate votes, however many delegates show up (8-304).
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