assenter

The nomination paper requires a proposer, a seconder and eight other signatures from "assenters" - people who live in the election catchment area.

The above is a brief specimen of the assenter in conversation.

But the pasha was not wholly the simple assenter.

He could not play the assenter, and bow and importune: and sovereigns, however friendly they may have been before their elevation, go the way of most princely flesh when they have attained it.

It is alleged that three of these assenter nomination signatures were forged.