The Department of Government Efficiency, a cornerstone of President Donald Trump’s second-term agenda, has exposed what officials describe as a deeply entrenched issue of voter fraud involving noncitizens, with early findings suggesting a far-reaching problem.

Led by tech titan Elon Musk and private equity investor Antonio Gracias, DOGE’s aggressive data-driven approach has already triggered arrests and indictments, raising alarms about the integrity of U.S. elections.

DOGE’s investigation into voter fraud hinges on a meticulous process of cross-referencing Department of Homeland Security data with state voter rolls, a method enabled by a Trump executive order signed in early 2025.

This order, titled "Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections," authorized unprecedented inter-agency data sharing to scrutinize voter registration lists.

Speaking at the All-In summit in Miami on Wednesday, Gracias, a senior DOGE official, detailed the process.

"We’ve sampled a handful of states, and in those handful of states, we found people registered to vote, and we have found people who actually voted. This is all being done by sampling. Okay, so we are sampling DHS data and then have to go to the voter rolls, check the voter rolls, and then check them."

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Gracias explained that DOGE hands over potential matches to Homeland Security Investigations, which verifies voter records through subpoenas.

"We give that to HSI, Homeland Security Investigations, who goes and checks the voter record by subpoena and the voter and the cards you sign when you vote,” he said.

The effort has already yielded results, with Gracias noting, "We had already three arrests here in Florida, actually, and one in one indictment."

Noncitizens with Social Security Numbers on Voter Rolls

A key focus of DOGE’s findings is how noncitizens, including some illegal immigrants, obtained Social Security numbers through legal pathways like asylum or special programs, enabling them to register to vote.

"They legally secured social security numbers through the process we talked about last time, asylum or some special program or whatever," Gracias elaborated. "They were given an associate number by filing a 765 and getting authorization. They registered to vote, and they actually voted in 2020 and/or 2024."

In April 2025, Gracias and Musk presented a chart at a Wisconsin rally, claiming that over 2 million noncitizens received SSNs in fiscal year 2024, with approximately 1 million each in FY 2023 and FY 2025.

These numbers, they allege, facilitated access to benefits like Medicaid and, in some cases, voter registration.

"None of this would have happened without President Trump. President Trump had the courage to allow us to go across databases. He signed an executive order. It’s never been done before, where agencies could talk to each other and databases could talk with each other," Gracias told Fox News on April 2. "That allowed us to connect all this data, to find these people across the system, across the benefit system, all the way to the voting records. It really took a lot of courage."

High-Profile Case: Iraqi National Indicted

Among the cases uncovered, one stands out: an Iraqi national indicted for voting illegally in New York in 2020.

Gracias described the individual’s history.

"Three have been arrested; I just want to say this carefully: three have been arrested, and one has been indicted. The one we indicted, I want to just stop on this guy for a minute: he’s an Iraqi national. He voted in 2020 in New York. He went to prison for shooting somebody, shot some guy’s hand off, and has charged, if I remember correctly, 160, 60, or $70,000 of benefits through Medicaid."

DOGE suspects the individual has fled to Iraq.

"We think he is now in Iraq because he’s active on his Facebook page, and the IP address is from Iraq," Gracias continued, praising the collaborative effort between DOGE and the US intelligence agencies. "Credit to our friends at HSI, our partners HSI, and to DOJ for tracking this down. I got to tell you guys, it’s difficult, laborious work."

Scope of the Problem: "Tip of the Iceberg"

The findings represent only a fraction of the issue, emphasizing the labor-intensive nature of the investigation, Gracias cautioned.

"My opinion is that this is the tip of the iceberg," he said. "How big the iceberg is, I don’t know, and I don’t want to speculate because I think it would be, not that I think we can do at this moment. I think we’ll have more data over time.

"For sure, if we can sample out of a database and it takes an engineer about a day to find 20-ish cases, what DOJ asks for was 10 to 20 cases per state. It just gives you a sense of what’s happening. It takes an engineer about a day to find 10 to 20 cases per state in sampling."

Who is Antonio Gracias?

Gracias, a billionaire investor and CEO of Valor Equity Partners, is a longtime associate of Elon Musk, with a relationship reportedly spanning over two decades.

A key figure in DOGE, Gracias was assigned to the Social Security Administration to lead efforts in uncovering fraud and inefficiencies.

His involvement with DOGE began in early 2025, shortly after Trump’s inauguration, when Musk tapped him to head a specialized immigration task force embedded across agencies like DHS, SSA, and the Department of Health and Human Services.

Gracias’s role leverages his private-sector expertise to navigate complex government databases, a task he has described as requiring "laborious" effort. His work has positioned him as a central player in executing Trump’s policy agenda, particularly on immigration and election integrity.

Trump Administration’s Voter Fraud Crackdown

Since taking office in January 2025, the Trump administration has prioritized voter fraud prevention, with DOGE and the Department of Justice leading the charge.

Trump’s executive order, signed in late March 2025, mandated DHS and DOGE to review state voter rolls and cross-reference them with federal data to identify noncitizen voting.

The administration’s efforts have fueled legislative momentum, with the House passing the SAVE Act in April 2025, a bill requiring proof of citizenship for voter registration.

DOGE’s revelations extend beyond voter fraud, uncovering 1.3 million noncitizens on Medicaid rolls and others accessing benefits like unemployment insurance and student loans.

Gracias warned of long-term consequences, citing California’s shift to a Democratic stronghold post-amnesty as a cautionary tale.

"It’s already happened in America where an amnesty program actually turned a very large state from one party to another," he said.

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