Two staff members from Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team at the Social Security Administration (SSA) were secretly communicating with a right-wing advocacy group aiming to overturn election results, according to a Department of Justice (DOJ) court filing.
The filing, part of a lawsuit challenging DOGE's access to SSA data, reveals that at least one DOGE employee signed a 'voter data agreement' with the unnamed group in March 2025. The DOJ stated that the group's 'stated aim was to find evidence of voter fraud and to overturn election results in certain states.'
Both staffers were referred to the DOJ for potential Hatch Act violations, which prohibit federal workers from engaging in political activities. It remains unclear whether any data was actually shared, but emails suggest DOGE members may have been asked to access SSA data to match voter rolls.
The filing also discloses that DOGE shared data on unapproved third-party servers, including Cloudflare, which is not authorized by SSA. The agency has not determined what data was shared or if it still exists. Additionally, a senior Musk ally, Steve Davis, received a password-protected file containing private information of roughly 1,000 people from SSA systems.
The revelations follow a whistleblower complaint from former SSA chief data officer Charles Borges, who alleged that DOGE uploaded a copy of agency data for virtually all Americans to a vulnerable cloud server, risking identity theft. The data included addresses, birth dates, and other sensitive information.
