How to Use elector in a Sentence

elector

noun

• Simpson, 56, was slated to be an elector and took a test ahead of the event.
  — Gray Rohrer, orlandosentinel.com, 14 Dec. 2020
• The gems date back hundreds of years to the time of Augustus the Strong, the elector of Saxony and king of Poland.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024
• Threats, fraud claims, Trump camp slammed elector plan.
  — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 21 June 2022
• By now, the 85-year-old Francis has named more than half of the elector cardinals.
  — Frances D'emilio, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2022
• To cast the votes, each elector signs six certificates.
  — Farnoush Amiri, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Feb. 2022
• Spindell is one of the 10 Republicans who claimed to be an elector for the state.
  — Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Apr. 2022
• For that reason, Biden won three electors and Trump won one elector in Maine.
  — Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 9 Nov. 2020
• Julian Wheeler, a fellow elector, stood up to pat his back as the rest of the chamber clapped.
  — Andrea Salcedo, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2020
• Ellis already took a plea deal in Georgia's case against the state's fake Trump electors.
  — Jeremy Duda, Axios, 5 Aug. 2024
• None of the electors responded to efforts by The Washington Post to reach them.
  — Holly Bailey, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
• The seven original counts against him stemmed from the plan to submit a slate of fake electors from Georgia.
  — Graham Kates, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2023
• Trump’s efforts to get allies to submit slates of fake electors?
  — Ruth Marcus, Washington Post, 1 July 2024
• The claim implies an elector can vote for the candidate who lost the popular vote.
  — Chelsey Cox, USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2020
• The first was spurred by an unfaithful elector, and the second began as a challenge from Democrats.
  — Audrey McNamara, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2020
• But if the body denied the results, any elector would be able to request holding a new election.
  — Lalee Ibssa, ABC News, 10 Feb. 2022
• Jones, a former state senator, served as one of the bogus pro-Trump electors.
  — Danny Hakim, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2023
• Voting by the Hall’s electors will take place between now and when the finalists are revealed in late April.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 10 Feb. 2024
• In some states, laws require electors to vote for the winning candidate.
  — USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2024
• Trump was directly involved in the false elector scheme.
  — Emily Cochrane, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2023
• Arizona law obliges electors to cast their Electoral College votes for the candidate who won the statewide vote.
  — Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 21 July 2024
• It was argued in the motion Hoffman and the other electors did not try to trick or deceive anyone.
  — Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 26 June 2024
• All 50 states dictate that the assignment of electors hinges on the popular vote.
  — Colby Itkowitz, Washington Post, 26 June 2024
• Chesebro was the original mastermind behind the plan to use slates of fake electors to swing the election for Trump.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 6 Sep. 2023
• Names and places, the same stage, alternative electors.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 24 Sep. 2023
• At the same time, the fake electors gathered in another part of the Capitol to fill out paperwork claiming Trump had won.
  — Molly Beck, Journal Sentinel, 8 May 2023
• Each state has an elector for every member of Congress.
  — Elizabeth Thompson, Dallas News, 3 Dec. 2020
• The lawsuit cites a memo Chesebro sent to Troupis in November 2020 detailing the elector plan.
  — Scott Bauer, ajc, 17 May 2022
• Congress determined state law allowed the elector to change his vote.
  — Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2021
• Would the court system say Congress is permitted – or even required – to count the votes of a slate of electors that the governor refused to certify?
  — Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2024
• In the aftermath, Arizona became one of several states that tried to challenge the Electoral College results by attempting to submit a fake slate of electors.
  — Monica Potts, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024