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Software error. thursday, they say they'll be announcing a fix for 2020, just months before nearly 20% of pennsylvania voters use the machines once again. >> that confidence has been broken now, that confidence is gone. i don't see how they're going to rebuild trust and confidence having people go to a machine that failed in many areas. >> confidence is a big deal, the machines are just one part of a much bigger, more complicated picture. that includes questionable oversight and disinformation. federal officials are aware and are working on it. joining me in pennsylvania, senior technical advi...

Discipline by the democratic national committee after snooping into rival hillary clinton's data. the campaign has been suspended from using the dnc's data system. this news of course is coming just a day before the third democratic debate in new hampshire. now, clinton's data was accessed by at least one of sanders staffers after a software error occurred at a technology company that allows the campaigns to access voters' data. we're talking about vital information here that the campaigns use to make strategy uk plans. you're not allowed -- one campaign is not allowed to look at another campa...

Confidential voter information belonging to hillary clinton. that staffer has been fired. the staffer insists he wasn't doing anything wrong. he said he was only trying to see how poorly sanders' datd that was exposed. he said today, quote, we were just trying to understand it and what was happening to the best of my knowledge, nobody took anything that would have given the sanders campaign any bene t benefit. the data breach happened after a software error that essentially dropped the program's fire wall. that database is considered a gold mine of voter information. it's often used by campaig...

After a software error occurred at the technology company that runs the program. we're talking about vital voter information the campaigns use to make strategic plans but you're not allowed to look at another campaign's data. the sanders campaign will remain suspended until it provides the dnc with a full explanation of the episode and provides proof that any data that was accessed has been discarded. a spokesman for sanders blamed the tech company, saying, quote, on more than one occasion the vendor dropped the fire wall between the data of different democratic campaigns. he's making the poin...

>> ben, i can't tell you how many times i think i hit something on my computer and i hit something else. i mean, is there any chance that when you did prudent person the application that you actually did submit it, that the error was a human error on your part and not a software error? >> that's certainly possible that i made some mistake there what i do know is that i did select the option that i did not agree to the terms of submitting an application. that part i do know that i did during the process. so even if i had done something to submit it, clicking the wrong button, i had no expectati...