Sentence examples for fellow electors from inspiring English sources
Even if he was a compromise choice of some sort, his fellow electors were clearly quite happy to make it.
But the meeting has a broad agenda, and its closed-door setting allows cardinals to speak their minds -- and also form the minds of their fellow electors.
Or we blame the media, or corporate interests, or someone for hoodwinking our fellow electors; the internet has let a thousand conspiracy theories bloom.How do we get back to an era of greater trust and willingness to compromise?
That's what I and the other Hamilton electors are trying to do – to work out what 'unfit' means and to educate our fellow electors of both main parties about that".
Many of these Democrats see the electoral college as the last-ditch hope of stopping Trump – the idea being that if their example can encourage their Republican fellow electors to follow suit and rally around a compromise alternative candidate, the Trump presidency can yet be abated.
In fact, he even stresses that, as electors, we should see ourselves accountable not only towards fellow electors, but also to non-electors whenever the franchise is not as universal as it could be (which generates the risk of electors voting only to defend their class interests as voters).[24] The example from Mill's times is the one of women, who were excluded from "manhood suffrage".
Fellow elector Carole Joyce, 72, a state committeewoman in Phoenix and retired public health nurse, was more charitable.
Suprun, the one Republican elector to turn against Trump, spent the weekend visiting the Lincoln Memorial, and this morning published a plea that his fellow-electors "be more than bean-counters, to exercise actual intelligence".
Let us not, my fellow Americans, and especially Electors, lose our great 225 year experiment in self-rule to the passions of the moment.
The electoral roll will include female Victorian electors born between 1 January 1944 and 31 December 1983, excluding silent and overseas electors.
Others, like the so-called Hamilton electors, a handful of Democratic electors from Washington and Colorado, are trying to urge fellow Democrats to support an alternative Republican.
