electors
Qualified ballot casters
Electors are people who vote in elections, or more specifically, members of an electoral body that formally chooses a leader.
In the United States, electors are the members of the Electoral College who cast the official votes for president: The candidate won the popular vote but lost among electors.
Historically, certain German princes were electors who chose the Holy Roman Emperor.
Chosen representatives or assigns
- pledgedFormally promised something
- winner-takes-allVictory claims everything
- faithlessUntrustworthy, lacking loyalty
- slateFissile metamorphic rock
certification · tiebreaker · apportionment · December · convene · cast · majority · threshold
Voting document
- pollingSystematic opinion gathering
- turnoutNumber attending an event
- registrationFormal recording of participation
- precinctAdministrative jurisdiction zone
district · constituency · casting · choosing · selecting · deciding · majority · plurality
Right to cast ballots
- franchiseLicensed business operation
- enfranchisementGranting citizenship rights
- participationAct of taking part
- civicPertaining to community affairs
legitimacy · representation · sovereignty · mandate · consent · accountability · self-governance · voice
Formal candidate selection
- appointmentScheduled time for something
- designationFormal name or title
- delegationTransferring responsibility downward
- caucusParty selection meeting
convention · primary · partisan · slate · chosen · named · eligible · qualified
Divided governmental authority system
- framersThose who construct frames
- ratificationFormal approval by authority
- amendmentChange to official text
- bicameralHaving two chambers
compromise · founding · republic · indirect · safeguard · deliberative
delegates
Chosen representatives or assigns
- pledgedFormally promised something
- winner-takes-allVictory claims everything
- faithlessUntrustworthy, lacking loyalty
slate · certification · tiebreaker · apportionment · December · convene · cast · majority · threshold · contested
ballot
Voting document
- pollingSystematic opinion gathering
- turnoutNumber attending an event
- registrationFormal recording of participation
precinct · district · constituency · casting · choosing · selecting · deciding · majority · plurality · tabulation
suffrage
Right to cast ballots
- franchiseLicensed business operation
- enfranchisementGranting citizenship rights
- participationAct of taking part
civic · legitimacy · representation · sovereignty · mandate · consent · accountability · self-governance · voice · empowerment
nomination
Formal candidate selection
- appointmentScheduled time for something
- designationFormal name or title
- delegationTransferring responsibility downward
caucus · convention · primary · partisan · slate · chosen · named · eligible · qualified · alternate
federalism
Divided governmental authority system
- framersThose who construct frames
- ratificationFormal approval by authority
- amendmentChange to official text
bicameral · compromise · founding · republic · indirect · safeguard · deliberative
- electionsballot, ballots, voter registration, candidates, polls
- German HistoryNazi, Prussia, Saxony, Reichstag, Napoleonic Wars
- Early Modern GermanyHoly Roman Empire, Protestant Reformation, Thirty Years War, Martin Luther, Brandenburg
- Holy Roman EmpireHoly Roman Empire, emperors, Charlemagne, Reichstag, Frederick Barbarossa
- Medieval GermanyHoly Roman Empire, Charlemagne, Franconia, guild system, Swabia
- votersvoters, voter, likely voters, registered voter, eligible voter
electorsdisenfranchised
Deprived of voting rights
voteless · unenfranchised · felons · minors · non-citizens
electorscandidates
Those seeking selection
nominees · officeholders · representatives · appointees · incumbents
- electoral votesState-allocated presidential selection units
- electoral collegeIntermediary voting delegation system
- electoral mapVisual of voting outcomes
- electoral fraudIllegal election manipulation
- electoral rollList of eligible voters
- electoral systemRules governing ballot counting
electoral, electoral college, elector, electorate, selector, electorally, electorates