- DOGE staff may have struck deal with advocacy group seeking to ‘overturn election results in certain states’
- The employees have been referred for potential violations of the Hatching Act
- Private information could have been shared through unapproved “third-party” servers
The US Department of Justice has confirmed in a lawsuit that members of Elon Musk’s “DOGE” were ‘secretly’ in contact with an advocacy group trying to ‘overturn election results in certain states’ – and one such member went so far as to sign an agreement that may have ‘involved the use of Social Security data to match state voter rolls’.
The DOGE employees in question have been cited for potential violations of the Hatch Act, which prohibits officials from using their positions for political purposes.
The political advocacy group, which is not named in the court documents, is said to have approached the DOGE team at the Social Security Administration (SSA) and asked to “analyze state voter rolls” with the goal of finding “evidence of voter fraud and to overturn election results in certain states,” a Justice Department official confirmed.
Unauthorized “Third Party” Servers
The data accessed by DOGE employees may have been private information ruled illegal by a court and potentially shared through unapproved ‘third party’ servers – ‘Cloudflare’.
“SSA believed these statements to be accurate at the time they were made and they remain largely accurate,” the Justice Department official wrote, adding “At this time, there is no evidence that SSA employees outside of the DOGE team members involved were aware of the communications with the advocacy group. Nor were they aware of the ‘Voter Data Agreement.'”
It was also revealed that a senior adviser to Musk and the DOGE team, Steve Davis, was “copied on a March 3, 2025 email that contained a password-protected file containing private information about about 1,000 individuals contained in Social Security systems.” Political reports.
It is not yet known whether the private information was accessed or whether this was ‘exploited’ by the department.
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