This might be the last we hear about Supervisor Kevin Cavanaugh for quite some time.

With 102,682 votes tabulated, InMaricopa projects incumbent Dana Lewis to retain her job as Pinal County Recorder. She won 97% of votes among 142,541 ballots cast today.

Just 2,204 of the votes went to write-in candidates; most had presumably jotted Cavanaugh’s name.

Following his self-styled “statistically impossible” loss in the county sheriff primary race, Cavanaugh decided to come for Lewis’s otherwise uncontested seat. In August, he submitted paperwork to become an official write-in candidate for the recorder’s office.

In a letter to the county elections department, he called his candidacy “largely symbolic” and said his reasoning was to force workers to count ballots manually.

“I know that write-in’s seldom win [sic.],” he wrote before delving into his well-honed election scandal spiel. “The only exception might be when the incumbent gets indicted or resigns over some scandal, such as planning and orchestrating the most sophisticated vote-cheating operation in modern American history.”

Cavanaugh spent a significant part of 2024 admonishing Lewis and sowing election doubts, including spending months calling into question his primary loss in a now debunked 21-page, self-published audit of the primary election.

The Pinal County Board of Supervisors appointed Lewis in 2022 after then-Recorder Virginia Ross stepped down for a shot at Elections Director.

Neither Lewis nor Cavanaugh immediately responded to requests for comment from InMaricopa.