voter

/ˈvoʊdər/

/ˈvʌʊtə/

Other forms: voters

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."

Definitions of voter

1. noun

   a citizen who has a legal right to vote
   synonyms: elector

   types:

   constituent

   a member of a constituency; a citizen who is represented in a government by officials for whom he or she votes

   crossover, crossover voter

   a voter who is registered as a member of one political party but who votes in the primary of another party

   floater

   a voter who votes illegally at different polling places in the same election

   floating voter, swing voter

   a voter who has no allegiance to any political party and whose unpredictable decisions can swing the outcome of an election one way or the other

   type of:

   citizen

   a native or naturalized member of a state or other political community