- DOGE employees may have struck a deal with an advocacy group that sought to “overturn election results in certain states.”
- The employees were fired for potential Hatch Act violations.
- Private information could have been shared via untrusted “third party” servers
The US Department of Justice 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 went so far as to sign an agreement that could have “involved the use of Social Security data to match state voter rolls.”
The DOGE employees in question were referred for potential 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 contacted the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) DOGE team and asked it to “analyze state voter rolls” in an effort to find “evidence of voter fraud and overturn election results in certain states,” a Justice Department official confirmed.
Untrusted “third party” servers
Data accessed by DOGE staff could be private information, deemed prohibited by a court, and potentially shared via unapproved “third party” servers – “Cloudflare”.
“The SSA believed these statements to be accurate at the time they were made, and they largely still are,” the Justice Department official wrote, adding “At this time, there is no evidence that SSA employees outside of the involved DOGE team members 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 on a March 3, 2025 email that included a password-protected file containing private information of approximately 1,000 people contained in Social Security Systems.” Policy reports.
It is not yet clear whether the private information was accessed or “used” by the ministry.
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