Secretary of State of West Virginia

[laughs] I guess when you're talking to constituents, where do you recommend that they get election-related information from?

There are only two, uh, sources that we recommend, and that is your county clerk and the West Virginia Secretary of State's office.

There is just, uh, an unbelievable amount of misinformation, disinformation, uh, that gets transferred, uh, via social media.

And we just say, "If you have a question or you're, you're concerned about something, go to one of those two trusted sources." Uh, you can also, through the Secretary of State's office, we have our govotewv.com, uh, website.

The receipts, because in receipts we trust.

I downloaded the West Virginia Secretary of State's annual expenditure files for 2024, 2025, and 2026, and looked specifically at candidates spending in campaign-facing categories.

Advertising, television, radio, direct mail, consulting, polling, campaign staff, fundraising, signs, web services and related work.

State candidates, legislative candidates and judicial candidates must file electronically, and each expenditure is supposed to identify the recipient, address, date, purpose and amount.