Hostile bishops naturally encouraged faithful electors not to participate in the polls.
The emphasis in these chapters is on the cultural preoccupations of the electors themselves and the 'court machine ' that fashioned images of the dynasty.
Activists are better placed to make their views felt by leaders than electors are.
Tens of thousands of electors might be added to or subtracted from a constituency, simply by imposing or repealing the small tenements act.
By contrast, legislators have very considerable, though still limited, powers over electors.
Such power as electors have is largely limited to the time between one election and another.
Although there was evidently informal canvassing among the electors during the two or three days that the assemblies met, in order to complete the time!
In other words, when making voting decisions electors must not be exclusively influenced by other ethnic or regional considerations, or by other policy promises.