Two members of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) may have accessed and shared Social Security numbers in support of a political advocacy group’s efforts to overturn election results in certain U.S. states, according to newly released court documents. The revelation, first reported by Politico, emerges amid a series of corrected testimonies from top Social Security Administration officials involved in ongoing legal battles over DOGE’s access to sensitive SSA data.
The documents, filed by Justice Department official Elizabeth Shapiro, describe how a political advocacy group contacted two DOGE members in March 2025 requesting assistance in analyzing state voter rolls that the group had obtained. Shapiro wrote that the group’s stated goal was “to find evidence of voter fraud and to overturn election results in certain States.”
Following these communications, one of the DOGE members—acting in their capacity as an SSA employee—signed and transmitted a “Voter Data Agreement” with the advocacy group. The court filing states that the DOGE members may have accessed private data that had previously been ruled off-limits by a court, and may have shared that information on unapproved third-party servers.
Shapiro noted that, at the time, there was no evidence that other SSA employees were aware of the communications or the Voter Data Agreement. However, emails included in the filing suggest that DOGE members may have been asked to match SSA data to voter rolls on behalf of the advocacy group.
The SSA has referred the two DOGE employees for potential violations of the Hatch Act, which prohibits federal workers from using their official positions to engage in political activities.
This disclosure follows last year’s federal court order restricting DOGE’s access to SSA systems, which contain Social Security numbers, medical records, driver’s license details, tax information, and other highly sensitive personal data. The issue escalated further when an SSA whistleblower alleged that DOGE uploaded hundreds of millions of Social Security records to a vulnerable cloud server.
The identities of the two DOGE members and the advocacy group remain undisclosed in the court documents, but the allegations raise serious questions about the misuse of federal data systems and the potential for politically motivated manipulation of personal information.
