Heather Honey | |
|---|---|
| Deputy Assistant Secretary for Election Integrity | |
| Assumed office August 2025 | |
Heather Honey is an American politician and conservative election researcher, serving as the deputy assistant secretary for election integrity in the US Department of Homeland Security since August 2025. [1] [2] [3]
Prior to Honey's appointment, she served as a leader in the 2020 election denial movement, supporting then-President Donald Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election. [1] Honey runs a consulting firm called Haystack Investigations, which supported election "audits" of elections. According the Al Jazeera , the group misrepresented incomplete voter data in Pennsylvania to falsely assert the state had more votes than voters in 2020. [4]
On October 22, 2025, The New York Times reported that Honey held a call with right-wing activists in March 2025 suggesting that the Trump administration would declare a national emergency regarding the 2020 election. [1] [5]
Honey's appointment was made public in August 2025. [6] The position did not exist in the prior Biden Administration. [7]
Following her appointment, Pennsylvania Secretary of State Al Schmidt released a statement saying his office had “has spent years successfully defending Pennsylvania's election laws against lawsuits filed by Heather Honey, and we are engaged in litigation against her to this day.” [8]