"Two members of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency may have accessed and shared Social Security numbers in an effort to help an advocacy group "overturn election results in certain States" last year, according to court documents. The revelation, which was first reported by Politico, comes as part of a series of corrections to previous testimony by top Social Security Administration officials related to legal battles over DOGE's access to Social Security data."
"In March 2025, a political advocacy group contacted two members of the DOGE team at the Social Security Administration (SSA) "with a request to analyze state voter rolls that the advocacy group had acquired," said Elizabeth Shapiro, a Justice Department official, wrote in the court documents. "The advocacy group's stated aim was to find evidence of voter fraud and to overturn election results in certain States," said Shapiro."
Two members of the Department of Government Efficiency may have accessed and shared Social Security numbers while assisting a political advocacy group's effort to overturn election results in certain states. In March 2025 the advocacy group contacted the two DOGE members to request analysis of state voter rolls the group had acquired. One DOGE member, as an SSA employee, signed and sent a Voter Data Agreement with the advocacy group. The DOGE members may have accessed private information that a court had ruled off-limits and shared data on unapproved third-party servers. Emails suggest DOGE members could have been asked to match SSA data to voter rolls. The SSA referred the two employees for potential Hatch Act violations.
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