What is the main criticism leveled against the Electoral College system for electing presidents?
A. It takes too long for the results to be known.
B. It sometimes differs from the popular vote.
C. It encourages voter turnout in every state.
D. It costs the public too much money.

B. It sometimes differs from the popular vote.

Such examples would be the presidential elections in the year 2000 and the year 2016, where the winner of the electoral college vote did not match up with the winner of the popular vote.

B. It sometimes differs from the popular vote.

Explanation:

the fact that could also be added to column b is that during world war ii, specifically between the years 1941 and 1945, japan expanded its territory towards the indonesian territory in what was known later as part of the "pacific war". in that time, japan could conquer the philipines, singapore,   borneo, central java, malang, cebu, sumatra and various other islands of the area, therefore expanding its territory for a brief period of time.