DOGE Worker at SSA Signed Agreement With Group Seeking to ‘Overturn Election Results,’ DOJ Says

In a bizarre court filing last week, the Justice Department acknowledged that in March 2025, two members of Elon Musk’s DOGE team who worked at the Social Security Administration were in contact with an advocacy group that hoped to “find evidence of voter fraud and overturn election results in certain states.”

The DOJ says in the filing that one of these DOGE staffers signed a “voter data agreement” with the advocacy group and may have sought to use Social Security data to analyze the state’s voter rolls for instances of voter fraud.

“[A] “A political advocacy group contacted two members of the SSA’s DOGE team to ask them to analyze state voter rolls that the advocacy group had acquired,” the filing states. “The advocacy group’s stated goal was to find evidence of voter fraud and overturn election results in certain states.”

“As part of these communications, one of the DOGE team members signed a ‘Voter Data Agreement,’ in his capacity as an employee of the SSA, with the advocacy group,” the filing states. “He sent the signed agreement to the advocacy group on March 24, 2025.”

The filing, dated January 16, 2026, was first reported by Politico on Tuesday. The filing is a correction to the record, revising a March statement from the then-SSA Chief Information Officer describing the scope and goals of DOGE’s work. The filing appears to be an effort to correct the omission of the actions of these two employees.

It is unclear what exactly came out of DOGE employees’ contact with the advocacy group.

“Email communications reviewed by the SSA suggest that DOGE team members may have been asked to assist the advocacy group by accessing SSA data to match it to voter rolls, but the SSA has not yet seen evidence that SSA data was shared with the advocacy group,” the filing states in a footnote.

The SSA made two Hatch Act referrals to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel in December for these violations, the filing said.

The DOJ noted in its filing that, as it stands, there is no evidence “that SSA employees outside of the involved DOGE team members were aware of the communications with the advocacy group. Nor were they aware of the voter data deal.”

“The SSA first became aware of this agreement during an unrelated review in November 2025,” it says.

These recent documents contradict SSA’s previous statements that said the agency had “information technology safeguards to ensure that no private or commercial servers were integrated into SSA’s systems,” an omission the filing appears to acknowledge.

The employees and advocacy group in question are not named. The DOJ did not immediately respond to a request for comment.