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noun
Elector  n.  
1.
One who elects, or has the right of choice; a person who is entitled to take part in an election, or to give his vote in favor of a candidate for office.
2.
Hence, specifically, in any country, a person legally qualified to vote.
3.
In the old German empire, one of the princes entitled to choose the emperor.
4.
One of the persons chosen, by vote of the people in the United States, to elect the President and Vice President.



adjective
Elector  adj.  Pertaining to an election or to electors. "In favor of the electoral and other princes."
Electoral college, the body of princes formerly entitled to elect the Emperor of Germany; also, a name sometimes given, in the United States, to the body of electors chosen by the people to elect the President and Vice President.






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... far been laid aside, and among them two parishes where a most foolish blunder, or something worse, was made in omitting from the Republican tickets the names of all the electors but the two Senatorial and one district elector. The Democrats claim this will lose over 2,000 votes, but our friends, whose information we have generally found confirmed, say it will lose us at most 1,193 votes. The law seems conclusive that the defective ballots cannot be counted for any electors but those named on ...
— Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet - An Autobiography. • John Sherman

... dreadful rocks, Dresden appeared to me a wonderfully agreeable situation, in a fine large plain on the banks of the Elbe. I was very glad to stay there a day to rest myself. The town is the neatest I have seen in Germany; most of the houses are new built; the elector's palace is very handsome, and his repository full of curiosities of different kinds, with a collection of medals very much esteemed. Sir ——, our king's envoy, came to see me here, and Madame de L——, whom I knew ...
— Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W--y M--e • Lady Mary Wortley Montague

... they all went to the Breidenbacher Hotel, where rooms had been retained for them, all but Barty, who, as became his humbler means, chose the cheaper hotel Domhardt, which overlooks the market-place adorned by the statue of the Elector that Heine has ...
— The Martian • George Du Maurier

... had been lately quite a stir. Professor Gellert had been ill, and riding a well- trained horse had been recommended for his health. Now Prince Henry of Prussia, during the Seven Years' War, at the occupation of Leipzig, had sent him a piebald, that had died a short time ago; and the Elector, hearing of it, had sent Gellert from Dresden another—a chestnut—with golden bridle, blue velvet saddle, and gold-embroidered housings. Half the city had assembled when the groom, a man with iron-gray hair, brought the horse; and for several days it was to ...
— Stories by Foreign Authors: German (V.2) • Various

... were the Bavarians taking part in the struggle? They were at this time allies of France, and Napoleon had given to their Elector possession of ...
— Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature • Ontario Ministry of Education


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