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While we stare at the Electoral College map, your regular reminder that the number of electoral votes each state has is determined by the results of the census...
...and despite the 14th Amendment's requirement to include the "whole number of persons in each state," President Trump wants to alter the #2020Census by excluding unauthorized immigrants from numbers that determine the 2024 and 2028 Electoral College map. https://www.npr.org/2020/10/22/919063603/2nd-court-blocks-trumps-push-to-alter-census-ahead-of-supreme-court-review
How the Electoral College's 538 votes are distributed:
- 100 (2 each to 50 states) based on Senate seats
- 3 to Washington, D.C. because of the 23rd Amendment
- 435 divided up among the states using census results and the "Method of Equal Proportions"
https://www.census.gov/topics/public-sector/congressional-apportionment/about/computing.html
- 100 (2 each to 50 states) based on Senate seats
- 3 to Washington, D.C. because of the 23rd Amendment
- 435 divided up among the states using census results and the "Method of Equal Proportions"
https://www.census.gov/topics/public-sector/congressional-apportionment/about/computing.html
