NC Democrats Get Organized at the County Level

According to the 2008 census, Alamance County in North Carolina has a population of 112,816 that are over 18. The Alamance County Election Statistics for the same year lists the number of registered Democrats at 41,421, Republicans 30,530, and 18,252 people are listed as Unaffiliated or Libertarian. That means that 22,613 people of the county population are either non-registered voters or not a citizen of the US. This shows that our political parties need to get active and start recruiting volunteers to go out and get more of their citizens registered to vote.

One way this is accomplished is by getting precincts in the county organized. This is accomplished by having the Precinct Chair, Vice and Secretary more active in their polling area and in organizing volunteers. Alamance County Democrats are having precinct meetings from February 27th through March 12, 2010.

Cathy von Hassel-Davies, Precinct Chair for the North Newlin District of Alamance County held her first precinct meeting on March 1st. She hopes to get more Democrats active in her precinct and to build a strong volunteer base. She was very active in the 2008 primary elections and noticed that her precinct areas voting list was very out-dated. This prompted her to get involved in her local precinct so that she can help clean up the voter database. This will also help volunteers who are giving of their valuable time to not waste it by going to homes that are abandoned, not there, or the occupant has moved.

There are 972 registered democrats in the precinct and there was about a 10% showing for the first precinct meeting of the year. This is a good way of becoming familiar with the people who are running in the local elections and to speak with these local politicians and finding out what their issues are. Jeremy Teetor, running for a two-year term of County Commissioner, Brad Allen running for District 15A District Court Judge, Ron Parrish who will be running for Alamance County Sheriff, James "Hunt" Johnson running for County Clerk were all in attendance. Unfortunately Pat Nadolski could not make it but he sent a representative who spoke for him at the meeting. Each one held our attention at they each spoke for about 10 minutes explaining their agenda and their hopes for the future of Alamance County.

If you want to be part of this mass organization of local Democrats in your area please check out the NC Democrat website and get in touch with one of your local representative.