Precinct Chair question [View All]

My strong interests lie in doing grassroots work in my county. The precinct chair in my precinct has been doing it for years and her apparent interest is in being there during primaries and general for the vote process. There's almost no activity that goes on any other time. I spoke with the interim county chair today (the other one had health problems and passed it over a few months ago) and was told that's the job the precinct chairs think they have, ie, elections and the county chair wants to work in slow for anything else.

Realistically, I'm not sure I could beat out someone in this county that has been doing it forever and is known to everyone. I had thought that the precinct chair, though, had other jobs besides, like making sure the precinct was worked, all people registered, rides to vote or meetings. But none of the precinct chairs do any of that.

Are they supposed to? Or is my idea about grassroots efforts at the precinct level an extra duty?

I've been told by the county chair that I could be in charge of grassroots efforts for the county and maybe that's a good substitute. Only have one more day to think about this.