Leading Election Conspiracy Theorist Appointed to DHS Leadership Position
A leading election conspiracy theorist — described by the anti-voting lawyer Cleta Mitchell as a “wonderful person” — has been named to a new “election integrity” post at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
According to the leadership chart on DHS’s website, Heather Honey was appointed earlier this month as the deputy assistant secretary for elections integrity in the department’s Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans.
The position, which reports to David Harvilicz, DHS’s assistant secretary for cyber, infrastructure, risk, and resilience, appears to be newly created. No such role existed during President Joe Biden’s administration.
Honey has been involved in efforts to cast doubt on the 2020 election results. She has a long history of starting and promoting election conspiracies throughout Pennsylvania — including one spread by President Donald Trump on Jan. 6, 2021.
“In Pennsylvania, you had 205,000 more votes than you had voters,” Trump said at the Save America rally before rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol, repeating a false claim that appears to have originated with Honey.
As the founder of PFE, Honey has led efforts to remove registered voters from the states’ voter rolls — using false and misleading data culled from unverified sources.
Honey also founded the Election Research Institute (ERI), an anti-voting research and advocacy organization that releases reports to support anti-voting policy positions.
Most recently, ERI was behind a conspiracy theory that Iran hacked Alaska’s elections in 2020 leading to a “significant increase in uniformed and overseas ballots.” The bogus report blatantly misinterpreted a 2020 Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency report that identified Iran as a “threat actor” targeting state election websites.
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A leading election conspiracy theorist — described by the anti-voting lawyer Cleta Mitchell as a “wonderful person” — has been named to a new “election integrity” post at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
According to the leadership chart on DHS’s website, Heather Honey was appointed earlier this month as the deputy assistant secretary for elections integrity in the department’s Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans.
The position, which reports to David Harvilicz, DHS’s assistant secretary for cyber, infrastructure, risk, and resilience, appears to be newly created. No such role existed during President Joe Biden’s administration.
Honey has been involved in efforts to cast doubt on the 2020 election results. She has a long history of starting and promoting election conspiracies throughout Pennsylvania — including one spread by President Donald Trump on Jan. 6, 2021.
“In Pennsylvania, you had 205,000 more votes than you had voters,” Trump said at the Save America rally before rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol, repeating a false claim that appears to have originated with Honey.
As the founder of PFE, Honey has led efforts to remove registered voters from the states’ voter rolls — using false and misleading data culled from unverified sources.
Honey also founded the Election Research Institute (ERI), an anti-voting research and advocacy organization that releases reports to support anti-voting policy positions.
Most recently, ERI was behind a conspiracy theory that Iran hacked Alaska’s elections in 2020 leading to a “significant increase in uniformed and overseas ballots.” The bogus report blatantly misinterpreted a 2020 Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency report that identified Iran as a “threat actor” targeting state election websites.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-ale...-position/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
