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The Committeeman Project: Alabama → Arkansas

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.

By: Martin Knight (Diary)  |  May 14th, 2009 at 02:20 PM  | 

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Update (05/14/2009): A little change; I’ve decided to concentrate the number of precincts per county first and the number of currently serving Committeemen in each county before drilling down to the precinct level.

What is the Committeeman Project? Read all about it here. Achance’s comment here neatly captures one of the whys of what we’re doing; returning control of the GOP back to the base and away from the consultants, lobbyist and hack incompetent political operatives in Washington DC and the state capitals.

We need to organize at the precinct, district, and state level so that you cannot win a Republican endorsement, caucus, or primary without being vetted by activist Republicans, rather than a group of lobbyists in a hotel suite or Capitol office.

Rather than waiting for some miracle (H/T: Jack Savage), I’m thinking we can get the ball rolling here on RS by utilizing our numbers and getting answers to some basic questions … just in case.

The beginning of most projects is research. We need to know;

  • … how many precincts there are in each of the nation’s 3140 counties,
  • … how many and which of these precincts have Republican Precinct Committeemen,
  • … what ZIP code (or codes) correspond to a particular precinct,
  • … how does one become a Precinct Committeeman in a particular locale (i.e. state, county),
  • … etc.

In the following weeks, I will be opening individual diaries for each of the fifty states with their own versions of the following table e.g. when it’s Louisiana’s turn “Parrish” will replace “County” and when it’s Michigan’s turn “Delegate” will replace “Committeeman.” I will be regularly updating the tables in the main body of the diary, relying on my fellow RedStaters via the comments to help me gather the information to input into the fields/columns for each state.

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Alabama

Flag of Alabama

Seal of Alabama
Population: 4,661,900 (2008 Approx.)
Number of Counties: 67
Number of Precincts (2008): 2,843
County Population
 Precincts
 Committeemen
Autauga 49,730 25
Baldwin 169,162 70
Barbour 28,171 21
Bibb 21,482 10
Blount 56,436 27
Bullock 10,906 18
Butler 20,520 28
Calhoun 112,903 54
Chambers 35,176 25
Cherokee 24,863 26
Chilton 41,953 19
Choctaw 14,656 33
Clarke 27,248 31
Clay 13,829 25
Cleburne 14,700 17
Coffee 46,027 34
Colbert 54,766 36
Conecuh 13,403 28
Coosa 11,044 14
Covington 37,234 30
Crenshaw 13,719 20
Cullman 80,187 52
Dale 48,392 23
Dallas 43,945 32
DeKalb 69,014 51
Elmore 75,688 32
Escambia 37,849 34
Etowah 103,362 58
Fayette 18,005 29
Franklin 30,847 26
Geneva 25,868 28
Greene 9,374 16
Hale 18,236 18
Henry 16,706 17
Houston 95,660 38
Jackson 53,745 43
Jefferson 656,700 378
Lamar 14,548 27
Lauderdale 87,891 39
Lawrence 34,312 31
Lee 125,781 37
Limestone 72,446 35
Lowndes 12,759 15
Macon 22,594 19
Madison 304,307 106
Marengo 21,842 27
Marion 30,165 23
Marshall 87,185 47
Mobile 404,157 200
Monroe 23,342 34
Montgomery 223,571 123
Morgan 115,237 59
Perry 11,186 18
Pickens 20,133 27
Pike 29,620 30
Randolph 22,673 28
Russell 50,085 22
St. Clair 75,232 76
Shelby 178,182 37
Sumter 13,606 15
Talladega 80,271 34
Tallapoosa 41,010 31
Tuscaloosa 171,159 101
Walker 70,034 47
Washington 17,651 36
Wilcox 12,911 30
Winston 24,634 23

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Alaska

Flag of Alaska

Seal of Alaska
Population: 686,293 (2008 Approx.)
Number of Boroughs & Census Areas: 27
Number of Precincts (2008): 438
Borough Population
 Precincts
 Committeemen
Aleutians East 2,697
Anchorage 260,283
Bristol Bay 1,258
Denali 1,893
Fairbanks North Star 82,840
Haines 2,392
Juneau 30,711
Kenai 49,691
Ketchikan Gateway 14,077
Kodiak Island 13,913
Lake & Peninsula 1,823
Matanuska-Susitna 59,322
North Slope 7,385
Northwest Arctic 7,208
Sitka 8,835
Skagway 862
Wrangell 2,448
Yakutat 808
Unorganized 78,486

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Arizona

Flag of Arizona

Seal of Arizona
Population: 6,500,180 (2008 Approx.)
Number of Counties: 15
Number of Precincts (2008): 2,239
County Population
 Precincts
 Committeemen
Apache 69,680 45
Cochise 127,866 64
Coconino 127,450 85
Gila 51,994 39
Graham 34,769 18
Greenlee 7,754 8
La Paz 20,172 12
Maricopa 3,990,181 1,142
Mohave 194,944 73
Navajo 111,273 70
Pima 1,003,235 417
Pinal 234,962 88
Santa Cruz 42,845 24
Yavapai 212,635 112
Yuma 190,557 42

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Arkansas

Flag of Arkansas

Seal of Arkansas
Population: 2,855,390 (2008 Approx.)
Number of Counties: 75
Number of Precincts (2008): 2,588
County Population
 Precincts
 Committeemen
Arkansas 20,749 26
Ashley 24,209 23
Baxter 38,386 43
Benton 153,406 83
Boone 33,948 29
Bradley 12,600 16
Calhoun 5,744 12
Carroll 25,357 31
Chicot 14,117 14
Clark 23,546 19
Clay 17,609 21
Cleburne 24,046 36
Cleveland 8,571 19
Columbia 25,603 17
Conway 20,336 33
Craighead 82,148 26
Crawford 53,247 42
Crittenden 50,866 45
Cross 19,526 24
Dallas 9,210 10
Desha 14,341 22
Drew 18,723 17
Faulkner 86,014 51
Franklin 17,771 31
Fulton 11,642 14
Garland 88,068 42
Grant 16,464 20
Greene 37,331 32
Hempstead 23,587 30
Hot Spring 30,353 35
Howard 14,300 21
Independence 34,233 30
Izard 13,249 47
Jackson 18,418 19
Jefferson 84,278 178
Johnson 22,781 22
Lafayette 8,559 21
Lawrence 17,774 30
Lee 12,580 15
Lincoln 14,492 28
Little River 13,628 22
Logan 22,486 38
Lonoke 52,828 55
Madison 14,243 27
Marion 16,140 16
Miller 40,443 29
Mississippi 51,979 71
Monroe 10,254 24
Montgomery 9,245 18
Nevada 9,955 21
Newton 8,608 22
Ouachita 28,790 21
Perry 10,209 19
Phillips 26,445 20
Pike 11,303 15
Poinsett 25,614 10
Polk 20,229 19
Pope 54,469 58
Prairie 9,539 23
Pulaski 361,474 136
Randolph 18,195 29
Saint Francis 29,329 30
Saline 83,529 75
Scott 10,996 30
Searcy 8,261 20
Sebastian 115,071 88
Sevier 15,757 18
Sharp 17,119 26
Stone 11,499 31
Union 45,629 21
Van Buren 16,192 21
Washington 157,715 118
White 67,165 94
Woodruff 8,741 20
Yell 21,139 29

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  • Brian Hibbert

    For example, the party official list for Illinois (mostly precinct committeemen) is here:
    http://www.elections.state.il.us/Downloads/ElectionInformation/PDF/repyb.pdf

    And it’s a 536 page document with about 15 precincts per page. It’s also a bit out of date.

    But when you get to Illinois, I’ll do what I can to populate your database.

    • Martin Knight

      I’ll be doing some research into seeing if there’s a similar list for any of the other states, though I’d appreciate some help. {hint hint}

      I just hope some AL RedStaters will help with this – this diary is only the first, and so it’s like a proof of concept project to see if it would work.

      PS: I sent an email to chairman-at-gop.com.

  • scarlos

    All I can find is the County Populations and for a couple of them the number of precincts present.

    • Martin Knight

      … perhaps a call has to be made to State Party headquarters, the government department in charge of conducting elections in the state, or something else.

      I’m hoping that when (or even before) I get to a state, RedStaters from that state would help out and help me ferret out some info.

      PS: Please put in the information (or the link to it) you’ve gathered in the comments. I’ll use it to update the tables in the OP.

  • Brian Hibbert

    The US Census Bureau is a good resource for a lot of precinct information. When you think about it, this makes sense since one purpose of the census is to redraw precincts. They call them “Voting districts” instead of precincts.
    This tool allows you to search by the name of your voting district (in Illinois it’s the township name and precinct number) and then you can click “map it” to see a small map of the precinct. Mine happens to be Fondulac 1.

    The census data is divided by years. 2000 is the last redistricting census so when given a choice of year, select Y2K.

    I know this does not give any information about party precinct committeemen, but it’s the only tool I could find online that would give me a precinct map.

    I assume Voter Vault will also give me a great deal of information. Republican precinct committeemen are supposed to be able to get access to it. My county chairman has promised to get me an application several times, but other things always seem to get in the way. I’ll be meeting with him next Saturday and I hope he brings an application along this time. When I finally DO get access, I’ll poke around in it and see what information I can mine that would help this project.

  • itrytobenice

    and you are a saint for taking it on.

    Now I have a confession and a request. I am the co-whatever-my-title-is of my precinct. Our state chair sent out a letter asking for ideas and help. I’m helpless in the face of it so I didn’t return it.

    I would appreciate picking your brain. Would you contact EPU for my email address so I can correspond with you please?

    • Martin Knight

      martin-underscore-knght-at-yahoo-dot-com
      Just substitute as necessary. And yes, there is no ‘i’ in ‘knght’.

  • itrytobenice

    I can help you with info from my neck of the woods when you get here.

  • Rod_Patrick
  • thenav

    but perhaps we should start with the purple states first, so we get those done?

  • Brian Hibbert

    I’ve been trying to find some details about precincts in Alabama and how the local parties are organized. I found nothing for the Republican party below the county leadership level.

    The state doesn’t seem to determine the party structure by state law, so each party can structure it’s own leadership and

    The Alabama Democrats have a form on their state web site asking for people to be precinct captains and precinct volunteers to assist the precinct captain. Not only that, they have a form that intended to let anyone help recruit more captains and aids. There isn’t much info on what precincts need leadership, but at least the acknowledge the importance of the grass roots.

    I think I’ll start sending emails to various party contact pages.

    • Brian Hibbert

      They don’t do precinct committeemen and they think their grassroots organization is just fine.

      “The “precinct” is a term we don’t use, rather we stick to our 67 counties as a guide and the county chairs as the “captains.” That said, there are other variables that I would be happy to discuss. Our grassroots ground game has evolved over the past 2 years that we have had our current team in place at the party headquarters – we have a good plan and 2010 is going to hopefully be the best year that this red state has ever seen. We have raised $4million and our chairman has been to various rnc events to talk about our “campaign 2010,” the new mexico party is currently modeling a campaign after ours. Conversely, our friends on the other side are saddled with about $30k in debt, a growing split in their party and are weakening by the day. Our grassroots/victory program is finally fully in place and hopefully we can take back the last piece of the democrats hold on this state in 2010 – that’s the state legislature that they have controlled for 113 years. Feel free to call or reply with any additional questions – thanks. Philip”

      I hope his analysis is correct and have emailed him for more information about their campaign 2010 program (especially any grassroots efforts they’re doing).

  • scarlos

    18 Precincts, and their respective voting locations for Colbert

    http://www.colbertprobatejudge.org/content/view/76/133/

    22 Precincts and their Respective Locations for Calhoun

    http://www.calhouncounty.org/vote/pollingplaces.html