ELECTOR

A Law Dictionary · 1910 · p. 9
A duly qualified voter; one who has a vote in the choice of any officer; a constituent. Appeal of Cusick, 136 Pa. 459, 20 At!. 574, 10 L. R..A. 228; Bergevin v. Curtz, 127 Cal. 86, 59 Pac. 312; State v. Tuttle, 53 Wis. 45, 9 N. W. 791. Also the title of certain German princes who formerly had a voice in the election of the German emperors. -Electors of president. Persons chosen by the people at a so-called "presidential• election," to elect a president and vice-president of the United States. ELECTORAL, Pertaining to electors or elections; composed or consisting of electors. -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. Webster. [s. 422]
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