CNN | Why the Electoral College has long been controversial

Florida A&M students protest discrepancies in the results of the 2000 presidential election.

Florida A&M students protest discrepancies in the results of the 2000 presidential election.

 

 

 

(CNN) – The Electoral College will again determine who’ll become President this year, as it has for more than two centuries of confusion. And Americans will once again ask themselves how the system has outlived generations of controversies.

In five US presidential elections — including in 2016, when Donald Trump edged Hillary Clinton — the eventual winner has lost the popular vote but won the Electoral College.  —read more—