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Citation From the June 14, 2021, edition of MSNBC's All in with Chris Hayes

CHRIS HAYES (HOST): First, I just want to start on the after effects of the threats which is what that AP story sort of put in my mind, which I don’t think I’d quite considered, right? I mean, this is not normal. It’s not what election officials usually face. This was totally anomalous -- what happened -- to people like yourself and the people far belong you in the org chart of running, say, the state of Michigan’s elections.

JOCELYN BENSON (MICHIGAN SECRETARY OF STATE): And it’s ongoing, as you mentioned, in part because there’s not yet been any real accountability for the political leaders who have been lying to folks and selling, you know, a false bag of goods of what is the truth about the election.

HAYES: Reading that AP piece, you begin to worry that this assault that was launched, the sort of vitriol and the harassment and these random workers who get caught on some viral video that blows up on a QAnon forum, that has real tangible effects on our ability, actually, to administer free and fair elections.