elector
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- noun
- /ɪˈlɛktər/
- US
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miembro del Colegio Electoral (EE. UU.)
- Washington was elected the first President of the United States by a unanimous choice of the electors.
- electors cast
- electors voted
- slate of electors
This makes Supron what's called a faithless elector.
- This makes Supron what's called a faithless elector.
- And so the idea is the Republican legislature, legislators then go, we're sending these new electors in.
- Eastman is the one who came up with the plan to send alternate slates of fake electors to Washington from battleground states that Biden had won.
- Everyone knows that this what these electors were not fake electors.
- Those folks, the potential for rogue electors, they're not allowed to be insurrectionist.
Examples
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We vote and then bind a whole group of electors to the popular vote.
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And the state's presidential electors should be allotted by proportion or at least by congressional district.
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But why on earth do we still need actual electors to cast these votes?
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Each political party chooses electors for each state, according to the U.S. Archives website.
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Montana: An elector may not show the contents of the elector's ballot to anyone after it is marked.
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The 12th Amendment requires a majority of electors, not just a plurality.
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In December 1788, the presidential electors met in their states, as the Constitution required, and cast their ballots unanimously for Washington.
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The first electoral college, for the election of 1788, consisted of 69 electors across the 10 states that had ratified the Constitution by then.
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In the United States, each state appoints electors to participate in the Electoral College and influence the presidential election.
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The electors gathered at the state capitol to officially cast their votes for president and vice president.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Elector comes from the Latin root for 'to choose', like the word elect, and in the United States it refers to a person chosen to officially cast their state's vote for president.