“I’m sure there’s an official at each one that could be assigned the go-to role ahead of time.”
that’s not how the caucus system works: it’s totally catch as catch can as to who (if any) show up ... no one knows in advance how many (if any) will show up for any given precinct caucus, and no one has opened or read the instruction packet before any caucus starts ... no one knows who will be caucus secretary or chair before the caucus starts ... and there are NO “officials” at a precinct caucus ... it’s just a bunch of strangers who show up at a schoolhouse classroom or firehouse for a couple of hours one evening ... precinct caucuses are absolutely the lowest form of “democracy”, in more ways than one, and not all of them good ...
that’s the main reason that it’s insane to even think of using any technology besides a pencil and paper, which, btw, even THOSE can sometimes be hard to find at a precinct caucus, where people start digging around in their pockets trying to find one ... i know all of this from having attended many precinct caucuses in Colorado, and Republican caucuses at that!
I’ve never been to one. So now you’ve piqued my curiosity. How do people know where to show up? Is it mostly party activists, or can just anyone run it? Not trying to be argumentative, just wondering.
Here in PA, we have local county party folks who organize meetings and canvassers and such.