From Votebeat:

The banging sound from Chairman Mike Goodman’s gavel filled the boardroom at a Pinal County supervisors meeting Monday, but Kevin Cavanaugh ignored it.

Cavanaugh, a Republican supervisor who lost his bid for sheriff, wanted the public to hear his unproven claims of cheating in the county’s primary election, which was up for certification at the meeting.

No matter how many times Goodman tried to stop him, Cavanaugh kept talking: “Five other candidates have expressed that very strange levels of —.” BANG! BANG! “Candidates came to me and —.”

Finally, Goodman asked a staff member: “Can you turn off his mic?”

Voting in Arizona’s July 30 primary went smoothly around the state, with no major technical or logistical issues, according to observers from both major political parties, elected officials, and candidates. But there were disruptions Monday in two of the state’s largest counties, as their boards of supervisors moved to certify the results.

In Pinal, Cavanaugh voted “aye under duress” to certify the results, later explaining that he felt forced to do so even though he doesn’t believe the results were accurate, including in the sheriff’s race, which he lost by a 2-to-1 margin. And in Maricopa, the epicenter of election conspiracy theories since 2020, residents yelled at the supervisors from the podium during the public comment period, with one saying she had more faith in Russia’s elections because “Maricopa is a joke.”

The Republican-led boards in both counties ultimately voted unanimously to certify the results, but the disruptions may be a sign of what is to come in November.