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West Virginia Policy and Elections

West Virginia Policy and Elections

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West Virginia policymaking through the perspectives of elections and campaign finance money.

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  • Interview: League of Women Voters of West Virginia Co-President Judy Ball

    Interview: League of Women Voters of West Virginia Co-President Judy Ball
    27 Oct 2026

    https://wvpolicy.substack.com/p/league-of-women-voters-west-virginia-wv-election-vote-2026

    Links of Interest

    * League of Women Voters of West Virginia Homepage

    * LWVWV Legislative Scorecard 2026

    * LWVWV Legislative Scorecard 2025

    * LWVWV Legislative Scorecard 2024

    * Vote 411

    * League of Women Voters of West Virginia Facebook Page

    * eague of Women Voters of West Virginia Board of Directors



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  • Honey, I Shrunk the Voter Rolls: An Introduction to Heather Honey

    Honey, I Shrunk the Voter Rolls: An Introduction to Heather Honey
    26 Oct 2026
    https://wvpolicy.substack.com/p/heather-honey-dhs-voter-election-2026-wvIn my last piece, we met the Election Integrity Network — Cleta Mitchell’s meticulously branded operation for turning election anxiety into model legislation, one state capitol at a time. We walked through the handbook, the ten principles, the suspiciously timed poll, and the whole apparatus designed to make you feel like democracy is held together with duct tape and good vibes.Today, we need to talk about one of the humans inside that machine.Reader, meet Heather Honey — private investigator, voter‑roll auditor, Cyber Ninjas alumna, Pennsylvania election‑world celebrity, and, as of August 2025, the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Election Integrity at the Department of Homeland Security.Yes, that’s a real title. No, it did not previously exist. No, you may not take the rest of the day off to process this.Part One: A Star Is Born (In a Voting Line in Lebanon County)Heather Honey’s personal mythology begins exactly where you’d expect it to: Election Day 2020, a polling place in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.By her own account, she was standing in line when she watched an older woman get handed a provisional ballot. This, for Heather, was a Damascus moment. A call. A sign. Where most of us would think “huh, that’s a thing that happens sometimes,” Heather thought: I should spend the next several years of my life pursuing this.And she did.Before we go any further, understand that Honey is not a rogue Facebook warrior. She is a trained private investigator and supply‑chain auditor who ran a firm called Haystack Investigations. She knew how to find things. She knew how to build a case. The problem, as we will discuss at length and with increasing concern, is what she found — and what she did with it once she found it.Part Two: The Claim That Launched a Thousand HeadachesWithin weeks of her polling‑line awakening, Honey was knee‑deep in Pennsylvania voter data. She ran the numbers. She ran them again. And then she produced a figure: Pennsylvania had 205,000 more votes than voters.This claim made its way up the food chain with the speed you’d expect from a claim that tells powerful people exactly what they want to hear. It was briefed to Republican state Rep. Frank Ryan. It was cited in legislative hearings. And then, on January 6, 2021, Donald Trump stood on the Ellipse and screamed it into a microphone aimed at a crowd that was about to do something memorable.The Department of Justice later called the figure false. The Pennsylvania Department of State explained the methodology with the patient, tired energy of a teacher on the last day before summer break: voter rolls are updated continuously after elections. You cannot take a snapshot of the rolls weeks later and compare it to election‑night results and call the difference fraud. You will always get a discrepancy. That is how voter rolls work. That is, in fact, the whole point of voter rolls.But by then, the claim had done its job.Part Three: Honey Goes to ArizonaHere is something that is real and actually happened: Heather Honey was a paid subcontractor for Cyber Ninjas, the company hired by Arizona Senate Republicans to conduct a partisan “audit” of Maricopa County’s 2020 presidential ballots.For the uninitiated: Cyber Ninjas was a cybersecurity firm with no election experience, run by a man who had shared election conspiracy theories online, hired to audit an election they already believed was stolen. They searched ballots for traces of bamboo fiber, which they believed would prove ballots had been smuggled in from Asia. This is a true fact about the world we live in.Honey served as a “manager” on the project and billed tens of thousands of dollars for her work.The audit concluded in September 2021. It confirmed Biden’s win. In fact, it found Biden had won by slightly more than originally reported.Honey did not slow down.Part Four: Follow the Honey (CPI → FAIRE → Verity)The money trail starts with the Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI), the D.C. nonprofit that funds the Foundation for Accountability Integrity & Research in Elections Fund (FAIRE), Mitchell’s shiny new election “research” vehicle. FAIRE pulled in roughly 3.9 million dollars in contributions in its first reported year and spent about 2.0 million on grants and other expenses. That’s a lot of concern about voter rolls.Buried in FAIRE’s Form 990 is where it gets fun. FAIRE had to file Schedule L — the “Transactions with Interested Persons” schedule — because it paid Verity Vote LLC 121,284 dollars for “consulting,” and disclosed Verity as “an entity owned more than 35% by an officer.” Translation: one of FAIRE’s own officers owned the company FAIRE was paying.Verity Vote LLC is not some mysterious, free‑floating election‑integrity start‑up. It’s owned by Heather Honey, who lists her address as 1451 Quentin Road, Lebanon, PA, the same ...
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  • The Truth about Conservative Policy Action

    The Truth about Conservative Policy Action
    25 Oct 2026

    https://wvpolicy.substack.com/p/conservative-policy-action-hd17-pinson-wv-gop-republican

    Links I used in Video

    * Facebook Ad Library

    * Conservative Policy Action FEC Account

    * Conservative Policy Action State Account

    * Federalist Society WV Chapter

    * WV Business Registration for Mountaineer Majority Fund



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