How to Use elector in a Sentence

elector

noun

• The electors challenged the fines, but the state Supreme Court upheld the law.
  — NBC News, 23 Jan. 2020
• 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
• Even the Colorado elector whose vote for Kasich was upheld agreed that the Supreme Court should weigh in.
  — Richard Wolf, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 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
• In 1796, electors chose John Adams to be the second president of the United States.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Dec. 2019
• 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.
  — Jared Eggleston, CBS News, 13 Dec. 2024
• 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
• The Supreme Court will examine whether the law violates the electors' First Amendment rights.
  — Anthony Leonardi, Washington Examiner, 13 May 2020
• 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
• That was in stark contrast with Monday's joint session, in which tellers ran swiftly through each elector slate.
  — Andrew Solender, Axios, 6 Jan. 2025
• Mimicking the procedures followed by legitimate electors, the fake electors met on the same day as the real electors but allegedly signed false certifications declaring Trump the winner.
  — Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 17 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Jan 2025