What does "elector" mean?
Elector: Hence, specifically, in any country, a person legally qualified to vote.
Additional senses
- 2.In the old German empire, one of the princes entitled to choose the emperor.
- 3.One of the persons chosen, by vote of the people in the United States, to elect the President and Vice President.
- 4.Pertaining to an election or to electors. In favor of the electoral and other princes. Burke. 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.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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