A Genuine Populist is Running for West Virginia Governor. His Donor Rolls Broke the State’s Campaign Finance Software.

Summary: When Stephen Noble Smith’s campaign sought topresent its 62-page finance filings to the West Virginia secretary of state, something went wrong.During the online submission process, the software broke down. “They had to call in the people who actually created the software because the file was too big to load,” said Smith. The breakdown is emblematic of what is different about Smith’s campaign for the Democratic nomination to be West Virginia’s governor.