The word "canvasser" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a noun to refer to a person who solicits votes or who takes a survey or poll in an area. For example: "The canvasser stopped at each house to poll the residents on their opinions about the upcoming election."
I rose quickly up the ranks of the public-advocacy organization — from canvasser to field director and then, by the time I moved to the Bay Area, to canvass director.
Every canvasser is defeated by the mind-blowing ignorance of those for whom "politics" is not on their radar, unaware how their daily struggles will be fought out in distant Westminster.
"Thanks for not being a canvasser," Helen says as I leave her house.
How would their canvasser put his case to an elector living in an obviously reactionary block of flats?
The focus for this constituency is over in Portobello High Street, which may explain why I have only had one canvasser (Labour), one mailing (Labour) and only seen one poster (Labour)." "[But] I don't think the SNP will win as many seats as predicted".
I had arranged to trail Jerry Ott, a middle-aged Clinton canvasser, that afternoon, and after a brief introduction we got into his hybrid sport-utility vehicle.
A study by two political scientists found that after a single non-confrontational conversation with a gay canvasser, support for gay marriage among the 972 subjects rose several percentage points, and that this effect was lasting.
Another recalls that she sent a Labour canvasser away "with a flea in her ear".
They can download information about who lives in each house, which party they belong to and what they told the last phone canvasser.
Paulina Mercado, a canvasser working streets of pre-war apartment blocks on a hot summer night, has herself registered 600 new voters since November, seeking Dominicans at naturalisation ceremonies, schools and Little League baseball games.
As I told a sincere-looking canvasser recently, the candidate who can say "I am not the incumbent" will get my vote.William OberbeckWauwatosa, WisconsinParticipative democracySIR – It is right to emphasise the crucial role that political parties will play in guiding Thailand back along the path to genuine democracy ("Returning to democracy", October 7th).
