That 'Beast' piece about white supremacist Allsup's 'election' is worrying. He stood uncontested and, apparently, this is the norm.
'Allsup’s post is a small one on its face, but it’s influential.
“If you want to take over a political party in this state, the best thing to do is to start at the PCO level and get a whole bunch of people who agree with your views elected as PCOs,” Hugh Spitzer, a professor of law at the University of Washington, told The Daily Beast.
PCO races are usually uncontested, and write-ins are not allowed, Spitzer said.
“From the party’s perspective, the responsibility of PCOs is to visit every house and apartment if they can, meet the people, and then determine [how they might vote],” Spitzer said, adding that PCOs also carry campaign materials for their party’s candidates, and vote for members of their party’s county central committee, who influence the selection of party officials on a more statewide basis.'