Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Monday, December 14th. I'm Niala Boodoo. Here's how we're making you smarter today. We take you inside a Michigan warehouse shipping out the vaccine, plus an explainer on Brexit's latest delay. First though, a rare spotlight on the Electoral College meeting is today's one big thing.

Electors around the country are headed to their state capital buildings today to

formalize president-elect

Joe Biden's election win. It's normally a big ceremonial event where guests and

members of the public are welcome to watch the vote, but this year everything's different. Not only are

states requiring masks and enforcing social distancing. In Michigan there will be

police escorts for electors from their cars into the state capital building in Lansing.

And since there's so much attention on this,

we wanted to let you know how all of us is going to work.

Steph Kite is a politics reporter for Axios.

Steph, I wonder how states are providing security, given the sporadic

violence we saw at some state capitals and in Washington, D.C. over the weekend?

Yeah, this is something that several people I talked to expressed concern about just looking over the past year.

We've seen state capitals in particular become kind of hubs of protest.

And you know, one good thing is that often state capitals already have some level of security in place,

but I think we're certainly going to see other states like Michigan take a few extra precautions given the crazy and heated political year it's been.

And how does all of this happen?

Like what's going to happen today?

So electors are meeting in their state capitals today and they will vote twice, for president and once for vice president and then those

votes are tallied on six certificates and all the electors have to sign off on those certificates.

It's interesting because this year so many of our events have been moved to virtual events.

But because of federal statutes that require that Electors actually sign on the certificates of votes.

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