While we wait for Electoral College votes to be tallied by Congress, your regular reminder that your state's share of 435 of those votes is determined by the census
https://www.npr.org/2020/12/31/950071851/comic-how-the-census-turns-into-political-power-and-what-trump-wants-to-change

2. Your state's share of 100 of those Electoral College votes is based on Senate seats (2 each to 50 states), and 3 votes go to Washington, D.C. because of the 23rd Amendment.

But what primarily determines how much of a say your state has in who is president, that's the census.

3. To be clear, how the 538 electoral votes are currently assigned to the states is based on the 2010 census.

The 2020 census affects the presidential elections of 2024 & 2028.

When thinking about the census, think in the long term because it carries 10 years of consequences.

4. And it's looking like the consequences of the 2020 census won't start to become clear until February at the earliest: https://www.npr.org/2021/01/04/953387427/trumps-census-plan-in-peril-as-bureau-expects-february-release-of-count-results