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Elon Musk’s America PAC is promoting VoteSafe.org as a tool to help people check their voter registration, but using the site could give the political group access to far more information than whether someone is registered to vote.
Judd Legum, journalist and author of the political newsletter Popular Information, reported on Tuesday (September 8) that VoteSafe.org collects users’ names, birth dates, full home addresses, email addresses, cellphone numbers, IP addresses and location data.
The site also collects information about the users’ activity, including the pages they view and links they click. Their voter registration status, which VoteSafe warns “may not necessarily be accurate,” is derived from a voter file held by America PAC or its vendors, rather than directly from state election records.
The site’s privacy policy was updated August 29. According to Legum, the previous policy prohibited America PAC from sharing the information with advertisers, political organizations or unaffiliated third parties.
The updated policy says America PAC may share or sell personal information to “business partners,” including information about whether someone is registered to vote and, where permitted by law, “how you submit your vote.”
The policy also allows America PAC to sell “inferences” about users, including information about their “psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities and aptitude,” according to Legum.
The New Republic reported that VoteSafe’s business partners include Facebook, Google, X, advertising firm The Trade Desk, tracking company Increment Data and marketing company Iterable.
America PAC spent more than $180,000 promoting VoteSafe on Meta in the week before Legum’s report was published.
This is not the first time America PAC has been accused of collecting voter information through registration efforts.
The New Republic reported that the PAC spent about $800,000 on similar digital advertising during the 2024 presidential election, with some users in battleground states providing their information without being directed to an actual voter registration page.
Musk has pledged to spend more than $100 million on the 2026 midterms, according to Legum.
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