- DOGE employees may have reached a deal with an advocacy group seeking to “overturn election results in certain states”
- Employees have been referred for possible violations of the Hatch Act.
- Private information could have been shared through unapproved “third-party” servers
The US Department of Justice has confirmed in a court filing that members of Elon Musk’s “DOGE” were “secretly” in contact with an advocacy group seeking to “overturn election results in certain states” – and one of those members even signed an agreement that may have “involved the use of Social Security data to cross-check state voter lists.”
The DOGE employees in question have been referred for possible violations of the Hatch Act, which prohibits government officials from using their positions for political purposes.
The political advocacy group, which is not named in court documents, is said to have approached the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) DOGE team and asked to “analyze state voter rolls” with the goal of finding “evidence of voter fraud and overturning election results in certain states,” a Justice Department official confirmed.
Unapproved ‘third party’ servers
The data accessed by DOGE staff could have been private information, which a court ruled was prohibited and potentially shared through unapproved “third-party” servers: “Cloudflare.”
“SSA believed those statements were accurate at the time they were made, and they largely remain accurate,” the Justice Department official wrote, adding, “At this time, there is no evidence that SSA employees outside of the involved members of the DOGE team were aware of the communications with the advocacy group. Nor were they aware of the ‘Voter Data Deal.'”
It was also revealed that a senior advisor to Musk and the DOGE team, Steve Davis, was “copied in a March 3, 2025 email that included a password-protected file containing private information of approximately 1,000 people contained in Social Security systems.” political information.
It is still unknown whether the private information was accessed or “used” by the department.
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