Plan to Attend Your Precinct Convention

When? Tuesday, March 6, is election day in the Republican Primary.  That night at 7:30 p.m., after the polls close, Republican Precinct Conventions will be held at each polling location.  Plan to attend your local precinct convention to make the local Republican Party strong!

Who? To be eligible to participate, you must have voted in the Republican Primary this year (early voting, by mail, or on election day), or not have participated in any other party's primary and be willing to sign an oath of party affiliation as a registered voter.

Where?  Your Precinct Convention will be held at the election-day polling location for the voting precinct in which you are registered to vote.  If you aren't sure where that is, you can look it up at this link.  Enter your name and date of birth, then click the "Search" button.  Scroll down to the bottom and in the section titled "My Elections" it will give you the address of your polling location.

Why? The purpose of the Precinct Convention is to pass resolutions, if you have any, which are issue or policy statements you believe your party should represent or work to achieve.  You also elect delegates and alternates to the County Convention from your voting precinct.  This is the beginning level of how a political party forms its beliefs every two years.

A training video on precinct conventions may be viewed here.

The Next Level - After Precinct Conventions, we then hold a County Convention March 24, 2018, at 10:00 a.m. at the Amenities Center/Clubhouse at The Colony (on Stephen F. Austin Drive on the left, just after Eight Oaks).  The delegates and alternates elected from their precincts will then assemble to adopt a county platform of issues and to elect delegates and alternates to State Convention to be held in June in San Antonio.  There, a statewide platform is adopted, party rules are tweaked, and our statewide party officers are elected for the next two years.

Plan to participate in your precinct conventions this Tuesday, and seek to be elected to the County Convention to help make your local party strong!

I have been active in Republican politics for over twenty years.  I participate - not for the party to tell me what to think - but for me to work to make my party more like me.  The Convention process is your best tool to accomplish that.

Albert L. Ellison, Founder
Bastrop County Republican News
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