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
• In the states where such rules don’t exist, the state elector can simply make their choice.
  — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 2 Oct. 2020
• 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
• Your vote for president is, in fact, a vote for an elector.
  — Phil Boas and Greg Burton, The Arizona Republic, 29 Oct. 2020
• Then there was the matter of who was qualified to be an elector.
  — National Geographic, 16 Oct. 2020
• 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
• The suit asserts that at least three of the elector oaths were obtained under false pretenses.
  — Peter Jamison, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2020
• 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
• This is a new national deadline for governors to certify the results of the presidential election and submit their slate of electors.
  — Mike Allen, Axios, 4 Nov. 2024
• That deadline leaves a window of five days before state officials must send the presidential results to U.S. Congress, and 11 days before electors meet to certify who won the presidential race.
  — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024