Heather Honey is the election integrity official at the Department of Homeland Security.
Posted by Deadline: White House, Checked
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Deadline: White HouseOct 22, 2026
Multiple reliable sources, including AP, Reuters, and PolitiFact, report that Heather Honey held the DHS election integrity post as of October 2026, so the claim was true on 2026-10-22.
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What was said
… the president actively putting a target on the backs of election workers, in terms of them facing potential fines or jail time if they allow non-citizens to vote. In addition to that, it's not just Trump who's barely awake in the Oval Office running this. You have election deniers like Heather Honey. This is one of Cleta Mitchell's lackeys, who's now the election integrity official at DHS, who's running some of these plots. I mean, you may remember that name. She was the one who came up with these fantastic notions of voter fraud in Pennsylvania. …
Deadline: White House · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. AP reported in August 2025 that Heather Honey was appointed deputy assistant secretary for election integrity in DHS's Office of Strategy, Policy and Plans.[1]
Supports. Reuters reported in February 2026 that Honey, as DHS deputy secretary for integrity, made statements on a briefing with state election officials about ICE and polling places.[2]
Supports. PolitiFact stated that Honey now works in an election integrity role at Homeland Security, and Democracy Docket described her in March 2026 as a senior election integrity official at DHS.[3][5]
Supports. ProPublica corroborated the August 2025 appointment as deputy assistant secretary of election integrity, and a later Daily Star piece says the administration appointed Honey to lead a new DHS Election Integrity office.[4][6]
Context. The extracted claim matches the post's wording, which describes her as the election integrity official at DHS; the sources describe a senior role rather than a sole office, so the definite article is a minor imprecision rather than a contradiction.[1][5]
Sources
6 sources: 3 fact-checkers, 1 tier 2, 2 not rated
- 1DHS hires researcher who has distorted voter data to ...apnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports, context
- 2Homeland Security official rejects suggestion ICE agents will be at polling stationsreuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 3How could midterm elections change under Trump?politifact.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 4Heather Honey, an Election Denier, Will Help Oversee Election ...propublica.org · tier 2 · cited for: supports
- 5Election Conspiracy Theorist at DHS Denies Department Is ...democracydocket.com · not rated · cited for: supports, context
- 6How Trump is moving to control US elections, one state at a timethedailystar.net · not rated · cited for: supports
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