presidential electors

presidential electors
Persons chosen at a presidential election, comprising what is known as the electoral college, each state being entitled to as many as the total number of United States Senators and Representatives of such state in the Congress, entitled to elect a President and Vice President of the United States but in actual practice voting in accord with the vote cast in their respective states.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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