Sends Mr. Smith to Washington?

Usage examples of elects.

And that is why Lucius Cornelius will march on Rome again if Rome takes this course, elects you consul.

Titus Quintius Barbatus, the interrex, elects consuls Lucius Papirius Mugillanus, Lucius Sempronius Atratinus.

Centuriate Assembly, a more exclusive body by far than the Plebeian Assembly, that elects the censors.

I think the State should gift each man with a plot of land to settle on when he elects to retire.

American citizenship provided that on attaining his majority he elects to retain it and returns to the United States to assume its duties.

State offers a litigant the choice of two methods of judicial review, of which one is both appropriate and unrestricted, the mere fact that the other which the litigant elects is limited, does not amount to a denial of the constitutional right to a judicial review.

What if he settles at Oricum and elects to prevent your returning to Italia?

France elects to attack Germany, England will feel obliged to attack her also.

In the United States this college which elects the President is elected on the same register of voters as that which elects the Senate and Congress, and at the same time.

But in an emergency situation, the clergy of the Roman diocese elects its own bishop.