Many electors didn't vote today because of the bad weather. 由于天气恶劣,许多选民今天没有投票。
They have had the verdict of the electors. 他们已经知道了选举人的决定。
The list of elector is put up on the noticeboard in the local office. 选举人的名单贴在地方办公室的布告栏上。
elector
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a citizen who has a legal right to vote
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any of the German princes who were entitled to vote in the election of new emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
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Elector \E*lect"or\, a. [Cf. F. ['e]lectoral.] 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.
Elector \E*lect"or\, n. [L., fr. eligere: cf. F. ['e]lecteur.] 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.
"Without doubt it's one of the most misunderstood things in all of government and politics," said Illinois elector Ray LaHood.
Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, who seconded Bush's nomination at the Republican National Convention, was a Pennsylvania elector.
That comported almost exactly with the results of the election, with the exception of one West Virginia elector, Margarette Leach of West Virginia, who cast her vote for Bentsen instead of Dukakis.
According to a 1965 opinion by the South Carolina attorney general, a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives does not have to be a qualified elector of the state in order to be seated.
That should be the vote after today's meetings, give or take a "faithless elector" or two, should there be any.