Sharing internal polling data with Russian intelligence so their trolls and bots knew exactly who to target with what message - this is HUGE, and makes the whole Trump campaign essentially an international joint venture with Russia. No wonder the Mueller investigation put such a high priority on Manafort, and would not delegate responsibility for his investigation to other law enforcement agencies. Manafort's the central kingpin of the whole scheme.

How could his lawyers cover the wrong info, and let something this explosive sail on by? Was Ghoulianni involved?

You have to consider whether it was deliberate or shockingly incompetent.

They may be tired of protecting him since he is a traitor. Can't pay? Cut him loose.

I've seen it multiple times. Strangely, this activity usually gets passed down to the lowest on the food chain, possibly even an intern, to ACTUALLY do the redacting. In today's electronic world, there are more ways to do it wrong than to do it right. Most of the ways people tend to think to do this, leave the information in place electronically, even if it generates an image where it can't be read. The only true way to do this correctly is to REMOVE the text, electronically, from the document. It must be REPLACED with the black lines. Attempting to allow the information to remain, but merely make it hard to recover is not a straight forward process.

personal information about Democratic voters? How does this affect me? Does Putin know what Precint I live in and how I vote and what my email address is? How directly does this affect the average Joe?