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Maricopa County recorder defends office, requests Agilis sorter to speed provisional‑ballot processing
Summary
Recorder Justin Heap told the Board of Supervisors the office produced roughly 10,000 pages of documents as a public‑records response, warned unredacted materials contain PII, defended signature‑verification and curing procedures, and urged purchase of an Agilis ballot‑sorting machine to handle large provisional counts.
Recorder Justin Heap told the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors on Feb. 18 that his office complied with the board’s document request but that the production—about 10,000 pages over a compressed timeline—contained personally identifiable information and therefore could be inspected by the board but not copied until redactions are completed.
Heap’s legal counsel told the board the documents were being produced under public‑records law and said a small subset of county‑attorney communications remained under privilege review. Heap said the quick turnaround placed “an immense amount of stress” on his staff, which…
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