DOGE officials face Hatch Act referrals for work with org aiming to ‘overturn election results’

DOGE employees also shared Social Security data using the third-party server Cloudflare, and according to new court documents, SSA still doesn’t know what data was shared and if its still on Cloudflare.

The Social Security Administration made two Hatch Act violation referrals last month after a Department of Government Efficiency employee signed an agreement to share SSA data with a political advocacy group, according to a new court filing.

That advocacy organization isn’t named in the document, but its “stated aim was to find evidence of voter fraud and to overturn election results in certain States.”

Last March, the advocacy group contacted two DOGE associates at SSA “with a request to analyze state voter rolls that the advocacy group had acquired,” the court filing says. 

One of the DOGE employees — neither of whom are identified in the court filing, which is dated Jan. 16 — signed a “voter data ...