What do precinct committee people do?

JACKSON — Local elections aren’t just about deciding who sits on the Town Council or heads to Cheyenne to write laws in the Wyoming Legislature.

Voters decide on the makeup of their county political parties.

Precinct committee people are selected every two years to make up the county central committee, according to Wyoming law, for the Democratic and Republican parties.

One precinct committeeman and committee woman is elected for every 250 votes or major fraction cast for the party candidate’s representative in Congress in the last general election, and the boundaries are drawn across the coun...