Sentence examples for For the electors from inspiring English sources

And the selection process for the electors was designed to ensure that Beijing's pick gets the top post.

On Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2000, the citizens of the several states, including Florida, cast their votes for the electors for president and vice president of the United States.

King of Castile and Aragon since 1516 and suzerain also over Habsburg lands in the Netherlands, Naples, and central and eastern Europe not to mention the Spanish possessions in the New World Charles posed a formidable problem for the electors.

Those documents, comparable to certificates of election that are issued to advise Congress of the election of its members, must be submitted by Dec. 18, the date set by federal law for the electors to meet.

In 1792, when Congress set the first Wednesday in December as the day for the electors to vote, it also required that states select them at any time within the preceding 34 days.

But there are five weeks for the electors to be "appointed," or, to use an even more arcane term, for governors to issue Certificates of Ascertainment, advising the National Archives and both houses of Congress who was elected in their state.

Tell me where there is a separate scheme for considering the outcome of the electors for president.

Plaintiffs further contest the State of Florida's certification of the electors for George W. Bush and Richard Cheney as being elected.

Al Gore and Joe Lieberman further contest the secretary of state's certification of the electors for defendants George W. Bush and Richard Cheney as elected.

Such evolution can be the result of a lack of interest of the electors abroad for homeland politics after a short-lived awareness period in the context of the Arab Spring.

To reduce the influence of the estates, Joachim Frederick in 1604 created a council called Geheimer Rat für die Kurmark ("Privy Council for the Electorate"), which instead of the estates was to function as the supreme advisory council for the elector.