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Reliably democratic voters. that forced the county to issue ballots by hand, meaning longer lines and delays, factors that can often depress turnout. again, this was not an attack on the way you count the votes, but it may have been an attack on the most democratic county in the state, where hillary clinton was going to get her biggest margins on election night in north carolina. and for whatever reason, things did go wrong in that county on election night when it came to their poll book software. >> welcome to the election hq on election night. >> we'll be here all night watching the big race...

Investigations unit is led by a former fbi agent. they're investigating the reportive attempts to compromise vr systems incorporated, a florida firm whose electronic poll book software was used on election day in 21 of carolina's counties. it was checking voters in, not with counting their votes. quote, but on election day last year, that system failed in durham county, north carolina. and durham county, north carolina, holds the state's most reliably democratic voters. that forced the county to issue ballots by hand, meaning longer lines and delays, factors that can often depress turnout. aga...

Nationwide sense of exactly which parts of our election system got hacked, got attacked in this russian effort last year, and how successful those attacks were. the anecdotal information we're starting to pull together so far doesn't give us any systematic look of how the russians targeted their attacks. maybe they were just lucky to target that one democratic county in texas and not the republican counties next door, we don't know. maybe the failing of the poll book software in durham, north carolina, that poll book software made by a florida company, reportedly attacked by the russians last ...

Carolina, that poll book software made by a florida company, reportedly attacked by the russians last year, maybe the russians just got lucky, that where it failed was in the most democratic county in north carolina. we don't know. those are little spot checks. but until we get a systematic comprehensive assessment of what happened with those attacks, how well targeted those attacks were to achieve what our government said were the russians' intentions, we will not know if they just got lucky here and there, or if it really was just a scatter shot attack and they're just seeing what they could...

>> welcome to the election hq on election night. >> we'll be here all night watching the big races on air. >> the big news at this hour, eight durham precincts extending voting hours, some 15 minutes, some a full hour to 8:30. >> several precincts had problems with the check-in system. they went to paper books. >> because of the decentralized nature of our american election system, it is hard to get a nationwide sense of exactly which parts of our election system got hacked, got attacked in this russian effort last year, and how successful those attacks were. the anecdotal information we're st...