DOGE refers dozens of voter fraud cases to DOJ 

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has referred dozens of alleged cases of voter fraud to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for prosecution, one of his staff said Wednesday. 

Antonio Gracias, a long time Musk ally who is working for DOGE in the Social Security Administration, said the cost-cutting panel had identified 57 resident aliens who had registered to vote. 

“We’ve referred many prosecutions to the DOJ, and they're working on them now,” he said at a briefing with Musk and a small group of reporters,

“They take a long time to prepare because you have to go to the states and get information and be 100 percent sure you're correct. And the problem is it's very laborious because, as I pointed out, it's several different databases. You have to actually hand sample the databases trying to find the stuff. You can't compare them automatically.” 

Musk and his DOGE team have repeatedly claimed that they have identified extensive fraud, particularly in Social Security payments, as they seek to cut large swaths of government spending.  

The tech billionaire again asserted Wednesday that DOGE had uncovered “hundreds of thousands” of instances of fraud, suggesting there was “widespread coordination of the fraudulent use of Social Security numbers.” 

The DOGE team’s efforts have in part focused on gaining access to the technological infrastructure and data systems at various agencies, including the Social Security Administration. 

However, the push has drawn scrutiny, facing numerous lawsuits that have, in many cases, barred the DOGE staffers from gaining access to the systems.  

Musk himself has also been named in numerous lawsuits, which have questioned the legality of his prominent role in the administration despite his lack of Senate confirmation.  

The Tesla CEO, who is serving as a special government employee, is set to take a step back from DOGE and the administration. He reiterated on Wednesday that he plans to reduce his time in the White House to one to two days a week going forward. 

The move to dial down his work at DOGE comes in the face of growing pushback to him and the cost-cutting effort, which has weighed heavily on Tesla. Musk’s electric vehicle firm has seen its earnings slump significantly, while also facing both peaceful and violent demonstrations.