"elect about" is a correct phrase in written English.
It is commonly used in formal contexts, such as political or academic discussions. Example: The students were tasked with writing an essay on the topic of free speech. They were asked to elect about whether freedom of speech should have limitations in educational settings.
And within eight months Libyans are to elect about 200 delegates to an assembly charged with drafting a constitution to be approved by a referendum within another year, meaning mid-2013.
The Times Company has a dual share structure: Class A stock, which is publicly traded, and a special class of stock, Class B, that allows the Sulzbergers to elect about 70 percent of the company's board.
Unlike Mr. Gore or Mr. Bush, who retreated to their headquarters for urgent strategy sessions when their campaigns were foundering, Mr. Bradley continues to trudge ahead as he did before, suggesting strongly that he will make no radical changes to his game plan before March 7, when more than a dozen states hold primaries that will elect about a third of the delegates needed for nomination.
Eventually the cathedral chapter was allowed to perform an election, and Blois was elected about 6 July 1203 and consecrated on 24 August 1203 at Canterbury.
"What would you do, if you were elected, about Aleppo?" the show's Mike Barnicle asked.
Beginning in 443 bc two censors were elected about every five years and held office for 18 months.
By 1995, a year after South Africa's first black government was elected, about 15percentt of pupils in white, colored and Indian schools were black.
A few weeks after President Obama was elected, about a dozen of Mr. Romney's top advisers — dressed informally, for once — gathered at his Belmont, Mass., home, for a holiday party.
But in a separate vote, some voters elected about 8,500 delegates to county conventions.
What would you do, if elected, about the states which are charting their own path on marijuana laws?
"There was a lot of mistrust on his end … toward folks within his own City Hall," said South Gate City Clerk Carmen Avalos, who was elected about the same time as Crespo and became a close friend.
