Does the government really need to know every subscription that every person in the county has? This seems like massive overreach/invasion of privacy.
At this point, everything continues as if this system wasn't involved, but now you have proof of intent to cancel. If they don't act on it in 2 work days you are in no obligation to pay for them anymore. And even if you accidentally do pay, you will be refunded.
Has any of the code and infrastructure been open sourced?