THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 6/21/17  Editor’s note: Rachel Maddow’s ground-breaking report tonight on the extent to which Russian actors may have penetrated local U.S. voting systems — which begins @ approx. 8:40 into the video — is perhaps the most important piece she’s done in months on the potential consequences to American democracy underlying the Russia-Trump investigation.

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The notes from MSNBC’s website describing the piece are as follows:

Rachel Maddow looks at how the US voting system consists of thousands of individual precincts, making it harder to hack as a whole, but also more difficult to monitor and defend, making assessment of Russia’s 2016 hack tricky. Duration: 24:57  

Editor’s note: As reported by Maddow in tonight’s piece, the man in charge of a GOP Data Firm from which the personal details of nearly 200 Americans were leaked onto an unsecured server was John DeStefano.

Today, he is the head of personnel in The Trump administration working out of The White House. In fact, he’s the man who signed the letter to former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, informing her that she was fired.”