Basically, they gave the private company the AUTHORITY to do county business, but the private company says they do not have the RESPONSIBILITY to follow the law concerning county business, because they are a private business.
WRONG! When doing government work, you fall under the requirements of that government entity - PERIOD! No matter what, the mandated responsibilities always remain, regardless of who is actually doing the work.
If it was this simple to avoid public record requirements, every single government entity would outsource every single function of their responsibility to a third party, private-company. Heck, the only people actually working for the government entity would be those who sign contracts with private companies! LOL!
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And Maricopa is evidently the only county in the state to outsource the verification of mail in ballots to a proprietary, trade secret artificial intelligence program, which is illegal in the first place.