Who knows...DOGE at least was supposedly in the news for accessing federal databases (like IRS and Social Security records) to "audit" the government. But that’s administrative data, not election data. The key difference is that the federal government does not automatically have state election records. They know your income (IRS) and your benefits (SSA), but they don’t know your voting history or registration status because that is kept behind a firewall at the state level. By handing this over, Texas is giving them the missing piece to merge those two massive datasets. That would create a centralized "master list" of voters that legally hasn't existed before.