Dems demand records from anti-voting groups on DOGE ‘voter data agreement’

Democratic lawmakers sent letters Thursday to 15 anti-voting groups, demanding any records that could determine which one signed a ‘voter data agreement’ with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to share private voter data. 

The letters — sent by Reps. John Larson (D-Conn.), Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), and Joe Morelle (D-N.Y.) — are part of a Democratic congressional probe into the full scope of DOGE’s activities to determine how deeply the agency engaged with election deniers — and whether sensitive voter data was put at risk.

In January, a federal court filing revealed that DOGE team members engaged with a “political advocacy group” to discuss using Social Security data to audit voter rolls in an effort to challenge election results. The filing stated that “the advocacy group’s stated aim was to find evidence of voter fraud and to overturn election results in certain States.”

“Trump’s own Department of Justice admitted in court that ‘DOGE’ schemed with an outside political group to try and use Americans’ confidential information from Social Security to overturn state election results,” Larson said in a statement. “From stealing data to surrounding the polls with ICE agents, Trump and his MAGA allies will stop at nothing to interfere with our elections and undermine democracy.”

Letters were sent to America First Policy Institute, America First Legal Foundation, Citizens Election Research Center, Citizens Outreach Foundation, Early Vote Action, Election Integrity Network, Election Transparency Initiative, Elections Oversight Group, Honest Elections Project, Public Interest Legal Foundation, The American Project, True the Vote, Virginia Institute for Public Policy, Voters Organized for Trusted Election Results in Georgia, and the Wisconsin Voter Alliance.

The filing, which was made by U.S. Department of Justice lawyers on behalf of the Social Security Administration, revealed DOGE’s coordination with election deniers but did not name the group. Several prominent election denial organizations have called for the Trump Administration to use Social Security data to audit voter rolls and challenge election results.

In addition to a House probe, the legal group Democracy Forward filed Freedom of Information Act requests to obtain records to uncover which election denial group coordinated with DOGE to access Social Security data for checking voter rolls. 

“Sensitive personal information provided to the government should never be used for political reasons,” Morelle said in a statement. “Yet DOGE signed an agreement to share such information with an advocacy group whose stated goal was to overturn election results.”