Campaign finance reports have been filed in connection with the recent recall election. Although pro-recall forces filed a report for one of the organizations behind its effort, Elmwood Citizens for Honest Officials, they declined to file for a second group, Elmwood Township Alliance. Both groups list the same address on their registrations, and critics (including the Leelanau Post) have charged that the second group appears to have been organized in order to hide the names of its funders. A third group whose name appeared on a pro-recall mailing, Elmwood Citizens for Honest Government, neither registered with the County Clerk nor filed. That group also listed the same address, that of former Elmwood Harbormaster Chuck Lessard and his wife Ellie, on its materials.

According to this Record-Eagle story, ECHO reported expenses of $1,149. Opponents of the recall, organized under the name of the Committee to Support Deri Smith, spent $2,442. It is not known how much was spent by the other two groups supporting the recall.