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also canvasers
as in interviewers
a person who goes around and approaches people with a request for opinions or information
worked as a canvasser for a public interest research group
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Recent Examples of canvassers
On the Democratic side, the campaign used hundreds of volunteers and paid canvassers, including some who drove from San Francisco and Los Angeles.
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Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024
Door by door, with the blunt methods of a traditional campaign, canvassers were reëstablishing, very belatedly, a dialogue that had lapsed.
—Julia Preston, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2024
In the weeks ahead of the election, busloads of Democratic canvassers fanned out across Luzerne County.
—Philip Montgomery, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2024
But if unofficial results show a margin of victory less than 25,000 votes in the presidential election statewide, county boards of canvassers must expedite that schedule.
—Clara Hendrickson, Detroit Free Press, 7 Nov. 2024
Presidential electors convene The board of state canvassers' certification — pending any recount requests — marks the end of the road for most election results.
—Clara Hendrickson, Detroit Free Press, 7 Nov. 2024
In Michigan, the state's 83 bipartisan county boards of canvassers must certify election results in the 14 days after the election takes place.
—Jalen Williams, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2024
Meanwhile, Reuters reports America PAC has struggled to meet its lofty goals, as its canvassers fan out across the swing states and knock on scores of donors’ doors in the election’s closing weeks.
—Molly Bohannon, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
Political signs are up, canvassers are hitting the streets and early ballots are going out to voters statewide.
—Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 19 Oct. 2024
Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024
Door by door, with the blunt methods of a traditional campaign, canvassers were reëstablishing, very belatedly, a dialogue that had lapsed.
—Julia Preston, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2024
In the weeks ahead of the election, busloads of Democratic canvassers fanned out across Luzerne County.
—Philip Montgomery, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2024
But if unofficial results show a margin of victory less than 25,000 votes in the presidential election statewide, county boards of canvassers must expedite that schedule.
—Clara Hendrickson, Detroit Free Press, 7 Nov. 2024
Presidential electors convene The board of state canvassers' certification — pending any recount requests — marks the end of the road for most election results.
—Clara Hendrickson, Detroit Free Press, 7 Nov. 2024
In Michigan, the state's 83 bipartisan county boards of canvassers must certify election results in the 14 days after the election takes place.
—Jalen Williams, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2024
Meanwhile, Reuters reports America PAC has struggled to meet its lofty goals, as its canvassers fan out across the swing states and knock on scores of donors’ doors in the election’s closing weeks.
—Molly Bohannon, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
Political signs are up, canvassers are hitting the streets and early ballots are going out to voters statewide.
—Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 19 Oct. 2024
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“Canvassers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/canvassers. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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