How to Use elector in a Sentence

elector

noun
  • None of the electors have been charged.
    — CBS News, 10 Dec. 2025
  • None of the electors have been charged.
    — Scott Bauer, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025
  • None of the electors have been charged.
    — ABC News, 16 June 2026
  • None of the electors have been charged.
    — CBS News, 17 June 2026
  • And electors, in any country in the world, make their choices.
    — CBS News, 22 Feb. 2026
  • The forgery charges are felonies and the elector charge is a misdemeanor.
    — Jessica Seaman, Denver Post, 9 Mar. 2026
  • In the states where such rules don’t exist, the state elector can simply make their choice.
    — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Then there was the matter of who was qualified to be an elector.
    — National Geographic, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Trump’s efforts to get allies to submit slates of fake electors?
    — Ruth Marcus, Washington Post, 1 July 2024
  • Simpson, 56, was slated to be an elector and took a test ahead of the event.
    — Gray Rohrer, orlandosentinel.com, 14 Dec. 2020
  • Chiafalo said his group is in talks with other electors around the country.
    — Simon Dumenco, Cosmopolitan, 2 Dec. 2016
  • Those electors in turn would vote for the president and vice president.
    — David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2019
  • The electors challenged the fines, but the state Supreme Court upheld the law.
    — NBC News, 23 Jan. 2020
  • In some states, laws require electors to vote for the winning candidate.
    — USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Those electors are almost certain to include Maduro’s wife and son.
    — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Aug. 2017
  • The claim implies an elector can vote for the candidate who lost the popular vote.
    — Chelsey Cox, USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 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
  • The suit asserts that at least three of the elector oaths were obtained under false pretenses.
    — Peter Jamison, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2020
  • And electors in any country in the world make their choices, and those choices have to be respected.
    — CBS News, 22 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • Bost and the electors want the Supreme Court to review that finding and revive their case.
    — Ella Lee, The Hill, 28 May 2025
  • Jones, a former state senator, served as one of the bogus pro-Trump electors.
    — Danny Hakim, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2023
  • That means the statewide popular vote does not dictate the state's five electors in a winner-takes-all system.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 13 May 2026
  • Or three years later, when Thomas Jefferson got some votes from the electors, does that count?
    — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2018
  • By now, the 85-year-old Francis has named more than half of the elector cardinals.
    — Frances D'emilio, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • The seven original counts against him stemmed from the plan to submit a slate of fake electors from Georgia.
    — Jared Eggleston, CBS News, 13 Dec. 2024
  • The first was spurred by an unfaithful elector, and the second began as a challenge from Democrats.
    — Audrey McNamara, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Charges in the Wisconsin fake elector case have advanced after the first court hearing.
    — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 14 Dec. 2024
  • Spindell is one of the 10 Republicans who claimed to be an elector for the state.
    — Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Apr. 2022

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