Voter
['vəʊtə] or ['votɚ]
Definition
(n.) One who votes; one who has a legal right to vote, or give his suffrage; an elector; a suffragist; as, an independent voter.
Edited by Everett
Examples
- Here is an attempt to fit political devices to the actual powers of the voter. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- His objections were very simple: We've got the organization in fine shape now--we know where every voter in the district stands. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Another device is the separation of municipal, state and national elections: to hold them all at the same time is an inducement to prevent the voter from splitting his allegiance. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The voter, sitting at his desk, would press one button if he wanted to vote aye, and another if he wanted to vote no. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Only the pathetic amateur deludes himself into thinking that, if he presents the major and minor premise, the voter will automatically draw the conclusion on election day. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- There were bodies of constables with blue staves, twenty committee-men with blue scarfs, and a mob of voters with blue cockades. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Pumping over independent voters! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- We discussed his chances, the merits of the other candidates, and the dispositions of the voters. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- And the Roman voters were organized to an extent that makes the Tammany machine of New York seem artless and honest. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A new issue does embarrass a wholesale organization of the voters. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- And as we have already noted, the great mass of voters in Italy were also disenfranchised by distance. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Tories bribe, you know: Hawley and his set bribe with treating, hot codlings, and that sort of thing; and they bring the voters drunk to the poll. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Fizkin's people have got three-and-thirty voters in the lock-up coach-house at the White Hart. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Nothing of this sort is possible in a modern democracy with, perhaps, several million voters. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Editor: Rudolf