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One of the most basic tenets of election security is to avoid creating a Single Point of Failure (SPF). Unfortunately, it appears that SCOTUS created a potential SPF by sanctioning DOGE’s access to SSA databases, which are now a key component of Trump’s voter purge election strategy. 1/

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4/ “SCOTUS gives DOGE access to Social Security data” 7/6/25 abc7.com/post/supreme...

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SCOTUS gives DOGE access to Social Security data

The Supreme Court's conservative majority on Friday granted DOGE the ability to access sensitive data inside the Social Security Administration.

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5/ I hope that DOGE didn’t acquire the type of access to SSA databases that would allow them to create a permanent “backdoor” and make changes. But there is so little transparency about what they did that that I wouldn’t bet money on it.
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7/ “The Save America Act was amended to add a “directive that states regularly submit their voter rolls to the Department of Homeland Security…” #SinglePointofFailure www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

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New SAVE Act Bills Would Still Block Millions of Americans From Voting

The “show your papers” requirement is an attack on the freedom to vote.

Brennan Center for Justice
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One of the most basic tenets of election security is to avoid creating a Single Point of Failure (SPF). Unfortunately, it appears that SCOTUS created a potential SPF by sanctioning DOGE’s access to SSA databases, which are now a key component of Trump’s voter purge election strategy. 1/...

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12/ “whistleblower reported that ‘DOGE engineers have tried to create specialized computers for themselves that simultaneously give full access to networks and databases across different agencies’” www.brookings.edu/articles/pri...

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Privacy under siege: DOGE’s one big, beautiful database

Stephanie Pell details reporting on efforts to consolidate government data, how this implicates the Privacy Act, and its potential uses.

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14/ “DOGE employees uploaded Social Security database to ‘vulnerable’ cloud, agency whistleblower says” 8/26/25 fedscoop.com/doge-social-...

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DOGE employees uploaded Social Security database to ‘vulnerable’ cloud, agency whistleblower says

An SSA spokesperson maintained the agency is “not aware of any compromise” to the cloud environment referenced in the complaint from the agency’s chief data officer.

FedScoop
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15/ DHS & SSA have allegedly “‘reengineered’ SAVE into an instrument for mass voter‑eligibility checks. Their complaint alleges that…data from multiple federal databases—including SSA’s vast NUMIDENT file—has been repurposed to enable states to upload entire voter‑registration lists for…screening.”/

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Voting Rights Under Threat: A Legal Challenge | Organizations Say Expansion of Citizen Database Violates Privacy and Voting Rights

Explore the implications of voting rights as organizations challenge a new national citizenship database over voter privacy concerns.

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16/ Whistleblower alleges that an SSA “database called the Numident, which is the master database of ur personal info, was uploaded to an AWS cloud environment.” [Numident’s data is now allegedly linked to the Save System to facilitate voter purges. This is a centerpiece of the Save America Act]

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Whistleblower responds after DOJ confirms DOGE mishandled Social Security data

The Social Security Administration says members of Elon Musk’s DOGE team working at the agency accessed and shared sensitive data. The latest disclosure from the Trump administration seemed to confirm some key concerns first raised in a whistleblower complaint filed by the agency’s chief data officer, Chuck Borges. Amna Nawaz spoke with Borges and his lawyer, Debra Katz.

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