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  • noun Plural form of canvasser.

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Examples

  • And no questions about Sean Gagen's bringing in "canvassers" who showed up at polling places, didn't pass out anything, and would disappear?

    NIGHTMARE: Kaine picked tonight?- UPDATE 2008

  • Now the group is under fire after an investigation revealed dozens of their "canvassers" - were ex-felons, some still on parole.

    Is the '08 Election In Process of Being Hijacked? 2008

  • According to eyewitnesses one of those who shot at the canvassers was a uniformed

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • The recall canvassers found it difficult to get to residents of apartments and condominiums, and that many people were on holiday during the Christmas season, while others were not motivated to sign up at the mobile locations in the riding, he said.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed DIRK MEISSNER 2011

  • You're speaking corresponding with someone who is outraged by the actions of ACORN, who wonders, when he votes, if his franchise has been made irrelevant by the fog of false data created by their "canvassers"; with someone who is outraged that his taxes go to support professional rabble rousers with no demonstrable purpose except to foment unrest.

    Jeffrey Rosen on the two important race cases that will be argued in the Supreme Court in the next few days. Ann Althouse 2009

  • Citizen Action, a group that supports a government-run system, this summer will send 1,500 "canvassers" to 45,000 homes each night; volunteers will reach an additional 20,000 people by telephone.

    Health-Lobby Mania 2008

  • All but the new boys obeyed, and the two "canvassers" were very hard put to it for a while, and might have fared yet worse, had not

    The Cock-House at Fellsgarth Talbot Baines Reed 1872

  • In deprived Nográd county, "canvassers" for Fidesz MP István Rácz were reportedly offering food parcels in exchange for nominations (all candidates must collect 750 nominations in order to stand in the election).

    Budapest Times 2010

  • In deprived Nográd county, "canvassers" for Fidesz MP István Rácz were reportedly offering food parcels in exchange for nominations (all candidates must collect 750 nominations in order to stand in the election).

    Budapest Times 2010

  • In deprived Nográd county, "canvassers" for Fidesz MP István Rácz were reportedly offering food parcels in exchange for nominations (all candidates must collect 750 nominations in order to stand in the election).

    Budapest Times 2010

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