Two members of Elon Musk’s DOGE team at the Social Security Administration were referred for possible Hatch Act violations over allegedly secretly communicating with an advocacy group seeking data to overturn election results, according to a Justice Department court filing disclosed Tuesday.
The filing — which says it remains unclear whether the unidentified DOGE employees shared data with the unnamed advocacy group — details emails that suggest the employees could have been asked to access SSA data to match voter rolls.
Lambert here: “Remains unclear.” Fair enough, but what is clear is that the DOGE employee (singular, I think) signed a “Voter Data Agreement.” One might wonder if samples were exchanged as part of the contract negotation. And then there’s that encrypted email Steve Davis got.
“SSA determined in its recent review that in March 2025, a political advocacy group contacted two members of SSA’s DOGE Team with a request to analyze state voter rolls that the advocacy group had acquired,” wrote senior Justice Department official Elizabeth Shapiro. “The advocacy group’s stated aim was to find evidence of voter fraud and to overturn election results in certain States.”
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