More than $50 million was spent on Georgia's Sixth Congressional District special election.

For Democrats, a win would have been a sign that the Trump resistance is translating into tangible electoral gains.

For Republicans, it is a sign that despite the harsh media rhetoric towards the President and their party, they continue to win congressional seats.

The timing of Karen Handel's win could also impact the national conversation over health care, as Senate Republicans are about to roll out their repeal of Obamacare this week.

Maine State Senator Michael Carpenter pinned an op-ed for the Bangor Daily News Tuesday that calls on lawmakers not to repeal the voter-approved ranked choice voting statute, but instead find compromise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waV-M92IOrk

Video: Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton

In a stunning move of secrecy and authoritarianism, the Obama administration removed materials related to the unmasking of U.S. citizens carried out by former National Security Advisor Susan Rice, and sent them to the Barack Obama Presidential Library, where they are protected for five years.

The special congressional election in Georgia's 6th District has attracted a lot of outside interest. Democrats, looking for a symbolic victory against President Donald Trump, have spent record-breaking amounts of money and resources to flip the district blue.

T.J. O’Hara, IVN’s podcast host, is joined by Tim Canova. Last year Tim Canova ran against then-DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, in South Florida’s 23rd Congressional District.

The two discuss how he was inspired to run and the race against Wasserman Schultz. They look at the class action lawsuit filed in Florida against Wasserman Schultz, and the numerous faux pas she’s made that have alienated a myriad of voters.

There is one message that voters are getting in Georgia's 6th Congressional District (and elections across the country): Be angry.

It appears that the momentum toward non-affiliated voter registration in Oregon is not letting up. In fact, it appears to be accelerating.

Latest statistics from the Oregon secretary of state’s office show nearly a 60% growth from December 2010 to May 2017. What’s interesting is the growth of independents from 2015 to 2017, from 527,302 to 739,405 (over 200,000 new registrations).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMH21Uw8KUA&feature=youtu.be

Video Credit: Equal.Vote

One oft-overlooked, yet critical point of discussion in the voting method debate is how actually accurate various methods are in terms of representing the will of the electorate. This video uses the magic of computer graphics to show visually how various systems perform in terms of representative accuracy.

Considered the largest breach of voter data in history, a firm working for the RNC left databases containing the personal information of more than 198 million voters exposed on an unsecure Amazon cloud server.

Birth dates, home addresses, phone numbers and voter registration belonging to nearly 200 million people registered to vote in the U.S.

Chris Vickery, a cyber risk analyst for UpGuard, discovered the breach.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mXD9mN4EI8

Update 6/19/17: The Supreme Court voted 5-4 to issue a stay in Gill v. Whitford. This means until the justices rule on the case itself, the current electoral maps will stay in place.

The Supreme Court will decide if a lower federal court was right to find that Wisconsin's state Assembly maps violated the constitution on the basis of a partisan gerrymander.