floaters
noun
Meaning
- Agent noun of float; one who or that which floats.
- An employee of a company who does not have fixed tasks to do but fills in wherever needed, usually when someone else is away.
- An unaffiliated player.
- A voter who shifts from party to party, especially one whose vote can be purchased.
- A person, such as a delegate to a convention or a member of a legislature, who represents an irregular constituency, such as one formed by a union of the voters of two counties neither of which has a number sufficient to be allowed a (or an extra) representative of its own.
- One who votes illegally in various polling places or election districts, either under false registration made by himself or under the name of some properly registered person who has not already voted.
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