He said many people have become active in the Republican Party in the last year. Since he was elected county chairman just after the 2020 election, he said the number of committeemen and committeewomen in the county has doubled, to 400, with another 100 about to come on board. (That’s still short of the potential. Each of the county’s 577 precincts can have a committeeman and committeewoman, plus others for each 1,000 additional voters in a precinct, Powers said.)