Elon Musk is spending millions of dollars running ads that push Americans to a website called VoteSafe.org to check whether they are registered to vote, and that site collects your full name, your date of birth, your home address, your email, your cell phone number, your IP address, your device details, and a record of every page you open and every link you click. The site is funded and operated by America PAC, the super PAC Musk founded. Snopes verified both the funding and the data collection this week.
Judd Legum broke the details at Popular Information on September 8. The list of what VoteSafe.org captures runs long: first, middle, and last name, date of birth, full home address, email address, cell number, IP address and location, your browser, your operating system, your screen size, the language your device is set to, which website sent you there, every link you click, every page you view, your voter registration status, and your district and ballot.
Compare that to vote.gov, which is the actual federal voter site run by the Election Assistance Commission. Vote.gov points you to your own state’s election office and, per its privacy policy, collects no personally identifiable information at all. It is free, it is official, and it wants nothing from you.
The timing on VoteSafe.org is what makes this worth paying attention to. The site used to carry a specific promise in its privacy policy: information collected through VoteSafe.org would only be used to support America PAC’s activities and would not be shared with advertisers, political organizations, or any third party not directly affiliated with America PAC. On August 29, 2026, that language was removed. The replacement policy allows America PAC to share or sell your personal information with its business partners for targeted marketing where the law permits it.
The guardrail came out, and then the advertising campaign went up. That sequence is the story.
There is another detail buried in the reporting that most coverage has skipped. When VoteSafe.org tells you whether you are registered to vote, that answer does not come from your state’s records. It is pulled from a voter file held by America PAC or its vendors. Your district and ballot information is scraped from Ballotpedia. So the site is not checking your registration against the only database that actually decides whether you can cast a ballot. It is checking a private file against you, and then keeping everything you typed in to get the answer.
Voter files are not secret documents. Basic registration data is public record in most states and campaigns buy it routinely. What is different here is the combination. A public voter file tells you a name and an address. What VoteSafe.org assembles is that record stitched to a live cell number, an active email, a device fingerprint, an IP address, and a behavioral trail showing exactly what that person read and clicked while they were on the site. That is a far more valuable asset than a voter roll, and it is now sellable.
The site can also be white labeled, meaning other organizations can run the same tool under their own name and branding. A person could land on what looks like a completely unrelated group’s voter tool and never know whose pipeline they just entered.
None of this is illegal, which is the part that frustrates people looking for a remedy. The collection is spelled out in the privacy policy. No court has found unlawful conduct here. The closest thing to consequences came in Georgia in 2024, when the State Elections Board voted to issue a formal letter of reprimand to America PAC after residents received partially pre filled absentee ballot applications in violation of state law. As far as public reporting shows, nothing came of the reprimand.
This is also not the first run at it. Ahead of the 2024 presidential election, America PAC put more than $800,000 into digital ads targeting voters in battleground states. Users in some of those states reported that the site marketed to them as a voter registration service took their information and never actually sent them anywhere to register. Michigan officials looked into America PAC in August 2024 over the same pattern.
Musk said in May 2025 that he was stepping back from politics. By the end of June he was publicly threatening Republicans who voted for Trump’s spending bill with primary challenges. In April 2025 he and his groups put more than $20 million into a single Wisconsin Supreme Court race and lost by ten points. The money did not stop and neither did the operation, and now it is aimed at the 2026 midterms with a data collection layer attached.
If you want to confirm your registration, go to vote.gov and use the link it gives you for your state, or go directly to your state’s election office. That is the record that determines whether your ballot counts. It costs nothing, it takes a couple of minutes, and no one gets your cell number out of it.
