Although the United States Constitution refers to " Electors " and " electors ", the name " Electoral College " — or any other name — is never used to describe the electors collectively.

King in Prussia was a title used by the Electors of Brandenburg from 1701 to 1772.

" General Electors " is the term used in Fiji to identify citizens of voting age who belong, in most cases, to ethnic minorities.

Electors were among the princes of the Empire, but they had exclusive privileges in addition to their electoral ones which were not shared with the other princes.

Electors also enjoyed several judicial powers within their territories.

It is fully understood by the voters and the Electors themselves that they are the representative " stand-ins " for the individuals to whom they have pledged to cast their electoral college ballots to be President and Vice President.

In some states, in past years, this pledge was informal, and Electors could still legally cast their electoral ballot for whomever they chose.

More recently, state legislatures ( exercising their constitutional authority to do so ) have mandated in law that Electors shall cast their electoral college ballot for the Presidential Candidate to whom they are pledged.

The Electors cast their votes on the Monday following the second Wednesday in December of that year.

They were ready to elect him, provided he make extensive concessions to the Electors and follow their political demands.

But despite the tight specifications, Adolf soon emancipated himself from his Electors and concluded pacts with their opponents.

Free Imperial Cities were not officially admitted as an Imperial Estate to the Reichstag until 1489, and even then their votes were usually considered only advisory ( votum consultativum ) compared to the Benches of the Electors and the Princes.

The Protestant Princes of the Empire and the two remaining Protestant Electors ( of Hanover and Prussia ) were anxious to keep Saxony well-integrated in their camp.

Nevertheless, a few months later the Lapua Movement was capable of not only demanding " their man " appointed President of Finland by the Collegium of Electors, which only weeks before had been chosen in nation-wide voting, but a sufficient number of the electors followed the Lapua Movement's request, disregarding the intentions they had declared during the election campaign.

" Two Pair of Portraits ;" – presented to all the unbiassed Electors of Great Britain, an anti-Whig caricature published 1798 by James Gillray showing Charles James Fox | Fox as the personification of vice next to a portrait of William Pitt the Younger | Pitt as the embodiment of honesty, followed by portraits of their fathers, Lord Holland and William Pitt senior displayed below.

The Union of Electors electoral philosophy was that it was not a partisan political party but an organization which marshals voters to enforce their wishes on their elected representatives.

25 are elected by universal suffrage from Open constituencies (" open " meaning that the franchise is open to all locally resident Fijian citizens, irrespective of their ethnic background ), with the remaining 46 elected from communal constituencies, with 23 seats reserved for ethnic Fijians, 19 for Indo-Fijians, 1 for Rotuman Islanders, and 3 for " General Electors "-Europeans, Chinese, Banaban Islanders, and other minorities.

The court ruled that voters have a right under the commonwealth's constitution to reliable and secure voting systems and can challenge the use of electronic voting machines " that provide no way for Electors to know whether their votes will be recognized " through voter verification or independent audit.

25 seats represented Communal constituencies ( 9 indigenous Fijians, 9 Indians, and 7 General Electors ( Europeans, Chinese, and other minorities ), elected on closed electoral rolls by voters registered as members of their respective ethnic groups.

The fourth electoral roll, for General Electors, is for people who have no ethnic Fijian, Indo-Fijian, or Rotuman ancestry, as well as for individuals who have such ancestry but choose, for whatever reason, not to register on the electoral roll reserved for their particular ethnic community.

Because he had no surviving male heirs, he negotiated the Pragmatic Sanction to assure that his daughter Maria Theresia would succeed him, going so far as to pre-bribe the nine Electors but, of course, once he died they ignored their promises but kept the money, resulting in the War of the Austrian Succession.

During an election, Elections Canada informs Canadians about their right to vote, how to get on the National Register of Electors and the voters list, and where and how they can vote.

In the final years of the Empire, several Electors were added, who however only held their offices for less than three years before the Empire's final dissolution.

Electors who ruled states in addition to their electorates also voted in the Council of Princes ; similarly, princes who also ruled comital territories voted both individually and in the comital benches.

However, as with Neukirchen, the Electors forwent their claim in 1663.

In 1826 he issued An Address to the People and Electors of England, in which, echoing his speeches, he had some success in urging the election of Members of Parliament who would not be " tools of the West India interest ", paving the way for the second Abolition Bill which succeeded in 1833.

* President of the College of Electors under the Royal Court ( Jersey ) Law 1948 for the election of Jurats ( existing Jurats, Senators, Deputies, Connétables and all practising advocates and solicitors ); the Bailiff is a member, but may only vote in the event of a tie after a second ballot

Electors were also asked to vote on a second question at the 1999 referendum which asked whether they approved of:

Through her second son Frederick – later Margrave of Meissen – Margaret was the direct ancestor of the Electors and Kings of Saxony and English Queen Consort Margaret of Anjou.

He received advancement through the good offices of the Cabinet Minister of the Electors of Saxony, Count von Hoym, the uncle of his second wife.

There were fusion tickets in which all of Lincoln's opponents combined to support the same slate of Electors in New York, New Jersey, and Rhode Island, but even if the anti-Lincoln vote had been combined in every state, Lincoln still would have won a majority in the Electoral College.

The Electors of Regensburg ( who had succeeded to the Mainz vote ), Würzburg ( who had succeeded to the Salzburg vote ), and Baden ( a new electorate ) became grand dukes.

Electors were free to vote for whomsoever they pleased ( including themselves ), but dynastic considerations played a great part in the choice.

In practice, the state legislatures have generally chosen to create Electors through an indirect popular vote, since the 1820s

Electors chosen this way are pledged to vote for a particular presidential and vice presidential candidate ( offered by the same political party ).

In both of these states, the Electors were chosen by the state legislatures rather than by popular vote.

The Twenty-third Amendment ( Amendment XXIII ) to the United States Constitution permits citizens in the District of Columbia to vote for Electors for President and Vice President.

Wenceslaus succeeded in bringing the Electors of Brandenburg and Saxony over to his side: Albert II of Saxony signed an elector pact on 29 November 1291 that he would vote the same as Wenceslaus ; Otto IV of Brandenburg made a similar commitment.

To avoid the possibility that the cities would have the casting vote in case of a tie between the Electors and the Princes, it was decided that these should decide first and consult the cities afterward.

The full nationwide vote for Presidential Electors was thus 111, 607.

Electors were asked to vote again on 12 February 1961.

Electors could vote for two candidates.

Electors could vote for two candidates.

Hence, in the Council of Electors, each individual held exactly one vote.

Electors today are elected in every state by popular vote, and in practice have since the 19th century almost always agreed in advance to vote for a particular candidate — that is, they are said to have been pledged to that candidate.

: Electors can choose between the lists competing for seats in the Dutch-speaking electoral college and for those running for seats in the French-speaking electoral college, whereas in other electoral arrondissements, electors can vote only on the list of the language area in which they live.

Electors from Saint-Pierre and Miquelon vote in all French Presidential Elections

Electors could vote for two candidates in the municipal elections.