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- noun Plural form of
elector .
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Examples
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His admission to the National Convention resulted from an electoral mix-up, when electors from the Oise nominated "Bourdon, substitute procureur at Paris and one of the conquerors of the Bastille."
Names 2007
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Though popular among Italian, Spanish and Latin American electors, Ratzinger is much less so among English - and German-speaking cardinals.
The Frontrunner? 2007
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It was necessary, to remove the apprehensions of France respecting the future: he called the electors to the Champ de Mai.
Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I Pierre Alexandre ��douard Fleury de Chaboulon 1807
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The maneuver, which the Democrats never attempted, might have kept the state from sending its list of official "electors" -- the Electoral College members who actually cast the votes that count -- to Congress and the National Archives.
payback 2005
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The maneuver, which the Democrats never attempted, might have kept the state from sending its list of official "electors" -- the Electoral College members who actually cast the votes that count -- to Congress and the National Archives.
Archive 2005-07-01 2005
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Its emperor traveled from city to city and was voted into office by a consensus of participating dukes, bishops, and other nobility, known as electors.
HITLER’S HOLY RELICS Sidney D. Kirkpatrick 2010
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Its emperor traveled from city to city and was voted into office by a consensus of participating dukes, bishops, and other nobility, known as electors.
HITLER’S HOLY RELICS Sidney D. Kirkpatrick 2010
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The people had to have the opportunity to vote before the Electoral College met, and the original date of the meeting of the electors was the first Wednesday in December, so everything was backtimed to that date.
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He had done his homework and knew he had the numbers to be elected president in the indirect election in which the electors are the members of parliament and the four provincial assemblies.
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In each state the electors are the members of the local legislature, its congressional representation and the governor.
In praise of parliamentary systems: if Mexico had a prime minister 2006
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