Elon Musk’s poll asked whether the former threshold staff for “inappropriate” speech should be rehired. 78% voted “yes.”

• Elon Musk conducted a poll on X asking if a front door staffer should be rehired.

• Most respondents voted to support their employees.

• The journal says the former employee is linked to social media accounts that advocate racism.

Elon Musk conducted a poll on his social media platform X asking if people should rehire government efficiency staff with “inappropriate statements”.

“Bring back to @doge’s employees who made inappropriate statements through the now deleted pseudonym?” Musk wrote.

Most participants voted for retraining.

The poll expired at about 11:15 a.m. ET on Friday, with about 385,000 votes, and 78% of the votes were.

Musk’s poll appears to refer to 25-year-old Marko Elez, who previously worked on SpaceX and X before joining Doge.

The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that the front porch staff was linked to the removal of social media accounts that advocated racism. The White House later confirmed to business insiders that the staff had resigned.

Elez is one of two Musk colleagues whose recent work at the Treasury Department raised questions about the level of Doge’s access to the department’s payment system, which contains sensitive data from millions of Americans.

The Ministry of Finance later agreed not to share personal financial data directly with Doge. Elez and Cloud Software Group CEO Tom Krause were identified as two Musk colleagues seeking access to the system during a court hearing Wednesday. Under the agreement, the Ministry of Finance said the two men would only read records kept by the Ministry of Finance.

In response to Musk’s poll, one X user commented that staff “should have a second chance” but should “talk to racists.”

“Yes,” Musk replied.

Vice President JD Vance also weighed the matter on Friday, saying: “Take him back.”

“I obviously disagree with some of Elez’s posts, but I don’t think stupid social media activities will ruin the lives of kids,” Vance wrote in an article on X.

Musk has a history of polling about X, including asking if he should resign from X’s CEO position and whether he should bring back a high-profile account that was banned.

He has previously acted on the results of some of his social media polls. The billionaire allowed Donald Trump to return X after the November 2022 poll results, and the ban on Trump was lifted.

Musk also restored records of several suspended journalists after one of his polls supported bringing them back seven days.

BI cannot reach Elez for comment. The journal said Elz did not respond to his request for comment. Musk and the White House did not immediately respond to BI’s request for comment.

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