Definition of voter
: one that votes or has the legal right to vote
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Maltese voters went to the polls a year early on Saturday in a snap election called by Prime Minister Joseph Muscat following an official investigation into allegations his wife owned a company related to the Panama Papers scandal.
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The Rev. Tyrone Crider, a prominent civil rights activist who helped register voters for both Harold Washington and the Rev. Jesse Jackson in the 1980s, and went on to lead Operation PUSH in the early 1990s, died May 26 after a long illness.
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State election officials across the country routinely remove voters who have died, moved to another state, or become otherwise ineligible to vote.
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The trick for Republicans and their allied outside groups is figuring out how to avoid conspicuously embracing the president without alienating conservative voters who would view any overt rebuff as a betrayal.
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A poll of German voters shows Chancellor Merkel’s conservative bloc’s lead widening as the main challenger Social Democrats continue to lose support.
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The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and MoveOn.org used the Wednesday night incident, involving reporter Ben Jacobs of the Guardian of London, in online and radio ads to spur last-minute voter registration and turnout.
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By Thursday, more than 200,000 of 700,000 eligible voters had cast early absentee ballots.
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Moore visited a group of conservative voters earlier in the evening at Mr. Bill's Family Dining.
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Circa 1578
First Known Use of voter
circa 1578
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