What is a "Republican precinct delegate"?

[Sam3]

I just got a call from the local GOP office asking me if I wanted to be a Republican precinct delegate. Any idea what that is?

My suspicion is that they want people to sit at a voting precinct on election day to watch that the voters are asked for their I.D.'s to verify that voter fraud is being addressed. Is that a pretty good assumption?

[Grace62]

Depends on your precinct/county/state party, you'd have to ask them specifically what the responsibilities are.

I'm a precinct delegate and what it's meant is helping with the caucus and going to the county and state party conventions.

"Party operatives" are not usually the people at polling places, that is usually the League of Women voters or some non-partisan group like that.
But you'd have to check locally.

[cbelt3]

Sam3- the role you described it normally attributed to an election judge. You may be the person that stands at the legal distance line and waves the Party flag and hands out pamplets. I'd research.

[the_poochies]

Sam3 wrote:
I just got a call from the local GOP office asking me if I wanted to be a Republican precinct delegate. Any idea what that is?

My suspicion is that they want people to sit at a voting precinct on election day to watch that the voters are asked for their I.D.'s to verify that voter fraud is being addressed. Is that a pretty good assumption?

Sam3, you may be describing what in my state is a "challenger." A challenger is a member of a political party who represents a certain candidate or ballot position on a referendum. The challenger wears a badge identifying him or her and the challenger is allowed in the polling place.

I worked as a challenger on a few elections in the 1990s and it was my job to sit in a polling place all day and see who voted (and report the numbers back to the campaign HQ). I even challenged someone's right to vote because they were registered to vote at a warehouse and not a legal residence (fisticuffs nearly ensued but that is another story). It was also my job to get the vote totals from the voting machine at the end of the day and call those numbers in to campaign HQ.

[$tevie]

I think that term's meaning varies so widely from place to place that you probably need to ask the person who called you what it means. I'm sure they are used to being asked that question.