A group of Univ. of Michigan students challenged establishment politics and won, until they didn't.

Tens of thousands of fewer voters cast a ballot than in the primary.

After months of waiting, Georgia voters will return to the polls tomorrow for a number of primary runoff elections. In these races—for Republicans, governor and lieutenant governor and for Democrats, the 6th and 7th Congressional Districts—no candidate received a first round majority.

In early June, more than 93,000 people cast their ballots in the GOP primary for Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District. For voters in 40 of the 50 states, that’s the end of the line: the candidate with the most votes advances to the general election, even if opposed by most of the voters.

We must work to change a system that actively undermines self-governance and yet brands itself a “democracy.”