Thread by @jennycohn1

The Arizona Republic argues that “public records law does not permit the Senate to play 'hide the ball' by delegating core responsibilities to a third party like Cyber Ninjas..." 1/
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I appreciate the sentiment. But where has the media been for the past 20 years during which public officials delegated core election responsibilities to private vendors like ES&S & Dominion, which use their “private” status to avoid public records laws?! 2/

I’ll say it again. The Ninjas are a hideous parody of America’s opaque privatized voting system. What makes the media think private vendors are less partisan or more trustworthy than the Ninjas? Remember how ES&S lied about remote access software & internet connectivity? 3/

Related sourced thread. 4/ threadreaderapp.com/thread/1405925…

Yes, a few media outlets covered concerns with private vendors before the Big Lie. But most gave such concerns short shrift. And most will never acknowledge the inconsistency, which is intellectually dishonest imho. 5/

Heck, @TXsecofstate, @EACgov, & @ESSVote are conspiring to withhold public records right now re: ES&S’s hash testing failure & EAC’s multi-state investigation of this problem. Yet major media outlets & most major left-leaning influencers ignore it. 6/threadreaderapp.com/thread/1410685…

.@azcentral