noun
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Etymology
Origin of voter
Explanation
If you cast your ballot during an election, you're a voter. In a presidential primary, voters from each major party choose a candidate to run in the general election. A voter, simply put, is either someone who's eligible to vote in an election or someone who actually does vote. When a candidate addresses voters, they're speaking to a group of people, trying to convince that group to vote for them. When voters pass an ordinance or approve a school budget, that means that the majority of those who voted made those choices. The Latin root of both voter and vote is vovere, "to promise."
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Good candidates, appealing visions, voter enthusiasm, capable organization and the national environment will each have a strong effect.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
"Momentum doesn't happen by accident," said Joseph Geevarghese, executive director of the grassroots group Our Revolution, which says its volunteers have made more than 300,000 voter contacts for El-Sayed.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
Whatever Warsh’s leanings, economists also point out that he is just one voter on a 12-member committee that sets the key U.S. interest rate.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
Sanders pegged voter disaffection on the increasing difficulty and cost of living in the United States.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026
It was the last day for citizens to get their names on the voter rolls in time to cast their ballots in the presidential election to be held the following week.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
Whether El-Sayed can effectively sell his message to undecided voters against Rogers now becomes a key question of the general election, said Corwin Smidt, a politics professor at Michigan State University.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
He encouraged Rogers to come up with a better line of attack than his identity, because he doesn’t think his Michigan voters will bite.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
“When voters don’t understand the proposal, they overwhelmingly vote ‘no,’” LaCombe said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
Greater candidate control over spending makes it clearer to voters who is responsible for a campaign that gets too negative.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
African Americans line up to register as voters at the Dallas County Courthouse during the 1965 Selma, Alabama, voting rights campaign.
From "Because They Marched" by Russell Freedman
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